Word: stuffs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Hazel is of different stuff. Tall, scrawny, she has nevertheless a sort of elfin charm. She is afflicted with what she calls "spazzums in her mind," and lives in a world of her own imaginings, populated by fairy princes and deferential dukes. Later in life she becomes "literary," transfers the dukes and princes to foolscap, and eventually pours forth upon the English public a bewildering procession of sentimental books which win thousands of readers but never a reviewer's tribute...
...have taught the people of Chicago to stomach our ware. The gum-chewers of Manhattan have gobbled it up. It must be popular stuff. It's too bad we can't sell it to the whole country. But it would cost a terrible lot of money to start a newspaper in every city. Why not put our stuff into a magazine and sell it everywhere...
...John T. McCutcheon draw a cartoon for the cover. Then we'll have an editorial page and put at the top that things of Decatur's: 'Our Country . . . may she always be in the right; but our country, right or wrong!' That must be good stuff; we've used it for a long time. Then we'll get some stories-the kind we use in our Sunday editions-by George Barr McCutcheon, Albert Payson Terhune and Montague Glass. And we can have Mae Tince, who does our movies, contribute some of that...
...When we started", Mr. Warner explained, "we had no idea of what we were going to find, but the results of the trip have surpassed our expectations. Some of the pure art will be sent to the Fogg Museum, while the uglier stuff, interesting from the archaeological point of view, will go to the Peabody Museum. We were not out for vandalism, however, and very little of what we found will be brought here, although our measurements and photographs will be of great interest...
Coach Slattery sent in Brown to show his left handed stuff in the eighth, and the southpaw proved the most effective of the three University moundsmen. One score trickled across in the eighth on a bit, a sacrifice, and another passed ball by Larrabee. With that single exception Brown was unhittable in the two innings he officiated on the rubber...