Word: stuffs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...arrived in the nick of time, for the white flood had seeped up through the bulkhead and cellar windows, and Mount Auburn Street was snowy with the stuff. For days afterward the sewers were clogged, but this quality of the printed matter had its good side as well. The city officials said that none of the dirt from Fort Hill had packed so solidly and heavily as each successive load of Lampoon...
...article entitled "Congress Isn't So Bad" in Plain Talk for January wrote as follows: ". . . The question before the house is: Has Congress become a governmental vermiform appendix? "In the House of Representatives' membership of 435 there is not enough hair on the involved faces to stuff a pin cushion. . . . "The more lenient critics believe we are unacquainted with contemporary poetry. Well, has there been any poetry lately? . . . "Belasco could recruit a troupe from our groups-Borah, the hero; Jim Reed, the villain; and Blanton, the mob scene! . . . "The press gallery often catches and transmits the noisy nothings...
...introduction, for the mature Bartók has now turned his back on Liszt and his theatrics. Liszt claimed a native Hungarian music when he took gypsies' tunes and made them into rhapsodies. But gypsies were not Hungarians, Bartók held, their jiggings not the real musical stuff of his people. He went forth on a quest, spent two years among the Magyar peasants, listening and remembering. He found the real Hungarian folk-tunes akin to early ecclesiastic music, their rhythms more like Bach and Handel than like Liszt. He collected nearly 3,000 of them. He turned...
...such self-discrediting and sorry stuff is worth $16,000, perhaps it is also good business to obtain it by bribery, "planting" of agents in the bureaus of a foreign state, and inciting these agents to commit burglary. Last week Hearstling subordinates testified that such were substantially the methods used to obtain the purported "original documents...
...goodness sake' TIME ? leave out the 'For God's sake' stuff ? even if sent by a 'High' School Principal...