Word: stuffs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Stark Young-'"Astonishing suggestions of living stuff; full of strong, wounded, indomitable life...
There are, of course, some advantages in possessing a longitudinally flexible shape. One could turn on the chandelier without getting up from the table, and clean out the chimney quite simply by taking the stuff in a succession of homeopathic doses. In fact, there is only one difficulty with the whole idea. So far, Dr. Evans has not yet announced a corresponding antidote...
Best of all were the good spirits that pervaded the entire production. Brim-full of enthusiasm, skill, and speed, the players, singers, and dancers in "Dixie to Broadway" got their stuff across to the last row; the audience was only too glad to come back with a glad hand...
...stupid scene was "The Red Ladies". This was perfectly ordinary revue stuff. Perhaps not many new tunes will be put on the market on account of their popularity here, but one at least was excellent--"When You and I Were Dancing", sung and danced by William Ladd and Madeline Fairbanks. Eddie Conrad made an excellent New York announcer, who therefore spoke no English. The depressed Jimmy Save whose face would light up with almost human intelligence added to the gayety of the evening...
...philosopher, the doer struggling with the dreamer. This is a book everyone should read. It is, in my humble opinion, a great piece of autobiographical writing. This was his conflict; this was his problem from the earliest days. He essayed heroism in the Spanish War, being of the stuff of his father, who dreamed dreams of heroism in the Civil War and spun tales of visualized if not actual valor. Then Anderson became a manufacturer. He owned a factory. In a factory, the soul is destroyed, but before destruction sets in, the soul is puzzled. Mr. Anderson asked his soul...