Word: stuffs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...evening that the two were unsuccessful collaborators. There is a flavor to the work of this fellow Shakespeare as his past productions have taught the theatre-going public which suffers from dilution. As a rule his work lacks the zip and go of most modern drama. It is powerful stuff. But here, in conjunction with the more American touches of Mr. Massey its tempo seems slow, its phrasing stilted...
...wrong. Beware that you do not plunge us from the American whirlpool into the French cesspool! Perhaps I shouldn't put it like that. But let's get away from the idea that American films are immoral. Dull they may be. Sentimental, sloppy 'sob stuff' you do get from America. But immorality never...
...inch record was the familiar thing. A twelve-inch record signified something long and probably boring-"Chocolate Soldier Medley," perhaps, or "Selections from La Traviata." The music of the people was not bedight with red, gold and purple seals and it was not twelve inches wide. Such stuff was suspect, for the elect. Not until radio proved that the people will listen to music, even concerts and operas, until the orchestra drops dead or the vacuum tubes blow out, did phonograph-makers realize what a musical bonanza they had failed to exploit. And if long-time records would sell, then...
Grist for the tabloid mills, pun material for Will Rogers stuff out of which we-view-with-alarm editorials are written--such is the effect of William Hale Thompson's election as mayor of Chicago on the extra-Chicago portion of the nation. Meanwhile Chicago politicians scratch their heads and reformers settle down to a prosperous season. The city knows what to expect; two terms of Mayor Thompson have convinced it that all is not sweet and clean by the shorts of Lake Michigan. Nevertheless it is willing to have another...
...leading article in that magazine's April issue, by City Editor Dewey M. Owens of the Knoxville (Tenn.) Journal, must have caused pain to Kent Cooper, present A. P. manager, and his colleagues, especially since the American Mercury had published an article the month before, entitled "Think Stuff Not Wanted," which exposed an attitude of blatant flippancy toward foreign affairs in a news service called, for poisonous anonymity, the "Amalgamated" Press...