Word: stuffs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Grammar School Stuff...
...enough to forego a small profit for a chance of a greater, to swing a united party behind them into the battle line and lay the fortunes of their party upon the lap of the gods. They have no great benefactor of mankind to teach us new dissatisfactions?the stuff of which our issues are made...
...remember very distinctly just what happened the last week of classes. There was Mencken and Brown and a ball game with more errors from eating peanuts than otherwise--also a Crime column which provoked someone to remark rather caustically, "So the Crimson now goes in for the 'say dearie' stuff." Which last completely floored me, since I had spent weeks of patient research in hunting down that particular epistle and expected to get at least the commendation of the English Department. I didn't get anything but seven days in Connecticut with a senior who had generals, a very...
Some days ago the New York Herald Tribune characterized H. L. Mencken as a "Professional Smart Aleck," a phrase which aptly describes those who write such stuff as "Came an eagle" and "a rival musnud of learning" in TIME, April 12, pp. 33, 34... Let me remind you that this sort of thing has been going on for two* years, and...ceases to be funny...
Love in a Mist. High comedy is nebulous stuff and demands much of the playwrights and performers. It received everything from the latter in this production and virtually nothing from the former. It reveals a girl who simply could not tell the truth and who got herself, a southern youth, and an Italian nobleman into no end of difficulty through this inability. Madge Kennedy, Sidney Blackmer (giving his best performance in several seasons) and Tom Powers are occupied as these three. Even so, the manuscript is wandering and almost mirthless...