Word: stuffs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...deceit. Furious at the collapse of his true love she rips off her wedding dress and flees the gathering, just as the guest of honor a stuffy, haughty prince, sweeps majestically upon the scene. This may sound pretty palpitating, but one must listen to a lot of sluggish stuff before the climax...
...River, was visited by a strange terror-Dr. James P. Chapin, associate curator of birds of the American Museum of Natural History. Little monkeys chattered and cried to one another in the treetops that the white-faced hunter had taken 2,500 lives out of feathery, furry bodies to stuff them with dead, hard matter. From the green lowlands, Dr. Chapin started up the side of a glacial mountain of the Ruwenzori Range. In sight of snow, 50 miles from the equator, his blackamoors, convinced that the strange whiteness was the touch of death, fled...
...dauntless women of America who felt the cruel hand of war are not made of stuff which misguided Communists can mold or impracticable pacifists can band to their dangerous conceptions. I hate war as much as any man alive, but there are things even worse than war, and women know what some of them are even better than the rest...
...they say "The leading 'prep' schools of the East have established standards of dress," and a lot more guff. Around the advertisement they put the school seals of Andover, Mercersburg, Pomfret, Choate, Groton, Lawrenceville, Exeter, Hill, St. Paul's, Taft and Hotchkiss. Where does De Pinna's get that stuff, calling these schools the leading "prep" schools of the East? Most of them are pretty good schools; I know fellows that go there. And how many fellows at Exeter, Andover, Mercersburg and Lawrenceville ever bought a suit at De Pinna's? But there are other leading schools; where the fellows...
...What a sweet lot of old ladies you must think your readers are, to publish in your SPORT department this description of bowling on the green! [TIME, Aug. 29.] Bowling on the green !! Who called that a sport anyhow ? It sounds like old ladies' stuff to me, rolling little balls on the ground and not even socking anything with them! And then you have to insult all the decent men who, like myself, think real bowling is not only good exercise but good he-man sport: "bowling or tenpins, playe 1 now in indoor alleys by barflies and roustabouts...