Word: stuffs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Murderers in the death house, deposed kings, women scandalously divorced, disowned prodigal sons, can always dispose of the effusions of their pens. The yellow press is always ready to lap up their stuff and give worthwhile remuneration. Papers and magazines on a higher plane will readily print matter from pens whose writings they would not have bought had it not been for the fame or fortune of the hands that held them...
...minor indictment. The spirit of play can be ruined quite as easily with cheap heroics as with money, and with consequences in the way of false standards equally harmful to the boys involved. For while bribes and subsidies will debauch the few who play, the do-or-die stuff makes eternal sophomores not only out of the few who play but also out of the many who applaud. What was George F. Babbitt but an eternal sophomore...
...unduly flatter them by publishing their stuff under "Religion." It is too good a word for them...
...city gas all the air it needs to burn efficiently anywhere." Hard by was a row of bottles with "white fish meal-for cattle," "impure glycerine-pure glycerine," "cod liver oil, certified grade," and other irrelevant mottoes. "Na, na!" said the gnarled Scot in charge, "we dinnae make sich stuff. Bit they ither folk employ oor mechines fir th' dryin' an' extracting...
...index to the degree of sorrow and disappointment the public must feel. A difference exists between a country's literature and its fiction. Mrs. Porter wrote none of the former and a great deal of the latter, sincerely compounding sweet sentiment with what hard-boiled editors call "nature stuff" and giving her main characters capitalized titles that were really poetic to multitudinous readers. The present volume retains this successful formula, telling the story of a Wounded Hero from the Great War who Married a Shamed Girl to give her Baby a Name, effacing himself very Nobly from her Tragic...