Word: stuffs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Behind the Front. A burlesque war picture seems slender stuff after The Big Parade. If that homeric comedy had not been made, Behind the Front would probably be called a fairly funny slapstick show with Wallace Beery principally concerned...
Just fancy living in a matriarchy. It might be all right for a plumber, but for a poet! All his stuff would get marked a triple E minus and be sent packing, though not far. For after all even the college woman, class two, does rather admit the existence of the less deadly of the species. She admitted it on Mt. Auburn Street when she smiled through piled manuscript at a jovial editor with a headache and offered to let him take her to supper. He took aspirin...
...Before the abolishment of the caliphate in Turkey, our religion and our conscience kept us away from liquor. Now the law forbids the Turks to imbibe, but we can get the stuff if we want on the sly. But the problem of bad, poisonous alcohol is just the same as in the United States. I will say, though, that the idea inherent in a Turk for centuries that he shall not drink or gamble because his religion so demands, still persists. He believes that drink leads toward degeneration of his race. His religion works for higher ideals, as any creed...
Also it seems to me that his "stuff," "Celebrities Dine," in TIME of Jan. 11, 1926, is not real foreign news or worth-while reading except for those who enjoy Town Topics, The Police Gazette...
...displayed yesterday. A curiosity now, the small, two seated, carriage-like automobile, 17 years ago was the finest conveyance for miles around. The ravages of time have left unscathed the product of that dimly remembered time when the salesman could honestly say to his prospective buyer, "there's real stuff in that...