Word: stuffs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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First, she should alter the stuff that Jimmy Hussey has to do. Thin and strikingly Semitic for an Irish youth (which he really is), he has a way of making you laugh. His present lines and lyrics prove his skill; you laugh anyway. Cortez and Peggy dance, and have danced better. There is a jazz band that plays long and loudly. Two or three seasons ago, this was a good novelty...
...ruling may, it is true, be aimed at the professional tutoring schools who stuff their subjects full during the summer and have them disgorge their knowledge at the September examinations. It is hardly fair, however, to punish the innocent alike with the guilty. To take away credit in three or four examinations because of failure in a fourth or fifth does not seem quite just. If this plan is adopted as a measure to further limitation of enrollment, a statement should be made to that effect. At present commentators are balked by its apparent unreasonableness...
...take a drink occasionally, treat your friends when they come to your home or "set 'em up" for a buyer when he visits your office. How good is the stuff...
...cannot understand why you, or any publisher, should think the whole of the public morons or asses when you spring such stuff. I am an even-tempered man, but, by God, when I read such tripe, I swear a blue streak and kick my favorite...
...Mother Goose, there is some pretty poor stuff. . But on the whole it's good; and so far hasn't been beaten. The combination of word sounds, the catchy rhythm, the absurd, jolly or pathetic pictures evoked-all have their place and appeal. The rhymes are not "criminal," I am convinced by observation as well as by my own memory. Even to the tragic death of cock robin, which has caused many a weep in many nurseries...