Word: stuffs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...band concerts and radio jazz on Sundays in Pittsburgh, against which there had been no organized protest, had seemed to indicate that Sunday symphony concerts might be no more pernicious. Few Pittsburghers stopped to consider that a Beethoven symphony or even a Debussy suite might contain more of the stuff of the spirit than a Moody & Sankey hymn...
...seriously smashed, unconscious. Ambiguous encounters, a detective, a furtive maid, mesh Cynthia-Celia in mystery. Apparently Celia-Cynthia is a criminal. Cynthia-Celia slowly finds out what kind, at the same time falling in love with the returned husband, who is puzzled but suspects no substitution, . . . Out of such stuff did Greek and Roman comedians fashion oldtime sidesplitters. Sometimes the situations were allowed to become broad. Author Webster, deft veteran, had ample ingenuity to twist his twins with the decorum and happy ending required of a first-rate American Magazine serial...
...future occurrences of such sort. We feel merely that the publicity they have received has magnified their importance, and provided manna for alarmists. And it is all because the man in the street is not interested in French requirements or the Tutorial system, but a student suicide is hot stuff, and merely confirms his ideas of college as a haven of hip flasks, atheism, and general immorality...
...hate to see so many good bits of this stuff cut up and flung around, but it looks like that was the only way we could ever have got them in here." He stopped, spat, chewed a diseased pipe and then added, "you see, even with the big doors they put in here, they forgot to figure that the doors in the old building was just as small as ever. Look at this, here...
...guess the damage wont show none. We aint half begun, though. There's a five-ton statute just come from London out in front now. Its too heavy for the elevator, and pretty near too big for the doors. If you ask me they should have stood this heavy stuff where they wanted it, and then built up around...