Word: stuffs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...such commendable books as Captain Macedoinc's Daughter, Aliens and Command, and who now purposes to become a U. S. citizen, anchored for further writing (a sequel to Race) at Westport, Conn., should remind his new countrymen of the texture of his thought. Grimly opposed to "sea stuff," particularly in the magazines of a landlubber nation, he is himself by no means all sailor. His concern is the large "ineluctable problem of human folly," his attitude that of a "benevolent marbleheart," his wit salt, his style compactly patterned, his horizon spacious and contemplative...
Hardihood* "Realism Has Crossed the Potomac," by Ferry The Story. "Broom sedge," old Matthew Fairlamb used to say, "ain't jest wild stuff. It's a kind of fate." Opposed only by ignorance and indigence, it crowded Virginia farmlands, Pedlar's Mill in particular, into hopelessness. Men either subsided into ruts-like Dorinda Oakley's plodding father and slaving mother; or their lives straggled, grew weedy -like Dr. Graylock with his whiskey, yellow wench and brood of pickaninnies at dilapidated Five Oaks. Walking early and late to work at the store in Pedlar's Mill...
...crime to possess liquor. This does away with the "rich man's" excuse that his is "preWar stuff...
Last of all, were old Hawaiian? terri fied? From the cradle, they had learned that their home islands were "key" positions to be studied and fought over by naval and military men. An occasional maneuver, an unusually big one ? it was old stuff to them. Even the local Japanese smirked unconcernedly...
...greatest pleasure resort within easy reach of the U. S." Work on the Pelee Island hotel of 350 rooms is to be started at once. Golf links, tennis courts, bathing beaches, 4.4% beer and wine will be there. Still another diversion was proposed. Said Mr. Baxter: "This Monte Carlo stuff is the bunk. Gambling is against the laws of Ontario. There will be a dancing casino, but not a roulette establishment...