Word: stuffs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...thereby lowering Gertrude Ederle's record by 2 hr., beating the best male time by 4 hr. Only six days before, Herr Vierkoetter had battled waves and a blinding fog for ten hours, failed to reach the Dover cliffs. Even then people wondered of what stuff this man was made...
Loose Ankles. Stale stuff from older plays, peppery wit, audacious hashing-and Playwright Janney concocts a diverting theatrical creature. A last testament commanding marriage stirs Ann Harper to rebellion. She will hire a gigolo* wherewith to shock this tyrannical family of hers. The scheme seems harmless enough. But when a young, amateurish gigolo appears and Ann plays something by Tschaikoysky on the piano, virulent sentimentality sets in, and the condition of the play becomes critical. Numerous first-nighters reached for their hats. In the nick of time, the scene shifts back to the private life of the four gigolos...
...motherhood, abortion, divorce, cousins marrying, etc., etc. There is strong meat in it for thoughtful persons, but it is recommended only to readers capable of supplying their own aesthetic and philosophical salt and pepper. Biologists are Communists. They work with the species, disregard the sport. Their imperative is the stuff that embryos, not dreams, are made of. For "individuality" they are content with the potential differentiations of the chromosomes. Such biologist talk as the following will strike home its full weight only upon the percipient mind: "The ability to form the deepest and finest bond with one of the opposite...
...machine at the Three K's shoe factory. . . , He had a pretty wife and a little son named Dante. There was another baby coming. He lived in a bungalow belonging to his employer, Michael Kelly. . . . The men were friends. Often Kelly advised him to lay off this anarchist stuff. There was no money in it. ... Sacco was a clever young fellow and could soon get to be a prosperous citizen, maybe own a factory of his own some day, live by other men's work. But Sacco, working in his garden in the early morning before the whistles...
...Reader. His little eyes bulged, his pudgy hands curiously, gleefully smudged the pages. Now, at 61, Democratic Senatorial Candidate George E. Brennan told the Illinois electorate about it, "a story I've never forgotten. "A mother, leaving her children alone for a few minutes, warned them not to stuff beans into their ears or noses. They'd never heard of the trick before. The minute the mother was out of sight they ran for the bean jar. "Human nature doesn't change. Our boys and girls are being ruined with the poison they sell for liquor nowadays...