Word: stuffs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...your readers do, to my knowledge, that such discreditable rubbish is a distinct reflection upon the good taste of your subscribers as well as yourself and is an act of disloyalty which it is our duty to resent. The article seems to me to be the quality of the stuff which is characteristic of a yellow journal but entirely out of character for your magazine and its editors...
...Topper is rather pathetic, but mirth is the tale's mother element. Topper tight; Topper in the courtroom with the ghostly Kerbys pulling the judge's leg; the smoky lady in stepins whom none but Topper can understand; Topper sitting platonically in an ectoplasmic lap ?out of such stuff is compounded a book to be hugged by bored suburbanites, occasional inebriates and all amateurs of good humor...
...would of grapefruit make their meal while shredded wheat their dappled waistcoats ill bedecks, for tonight, as they say in detective stories is the night? The night? Yes, the night when the Choral Society from up the line far past the Sargent portals toward the sun does its stuff, parades its pomp, sings, in fact, at the Pops. And to hug a pretzel while the Radcliffe Choral Society makes merry and out jockies Jacchia is something, or more. But duty is duty as the street cleaner told the cop, or more...
...government, such as we have in the U. S., is the most inefficient type of government in the world"; (re executive) "our forefathers, dreading Star Chamber methods, created an executive with too little power and too short a term of office to oppress the people"?100% grammar school stuff. All reporters are not of TIME'S accuracy; discrimination befits editors in culling such items. My admiration for your magazine survives unruffled...
...Scala Theatre, in Milan, last week, reminiscent. It was the occasion of the premiere of Turandot, posthumous opera of Giacomo Puccini, presented as he left it 17 months ago, unfinished. Critics, managers, connoisseurs the world over took the pilgrimage to Milan, hopefully, fearfully. Would Turandot be of the stuff of which La Boheme was made, La Tosca, Madame Butterfly?melodious, lovely, appealing, human above all operatic ingredients, or would it savor more of The Girl of the Golden West, of the later tryptich,* pappy, dull...