Word: stuffs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Educated at the City College, Meyer is to be a lawyer. He shuns the Ludlow Street Gang, which has grown and taken on a definite character. "A nest of thieves." But its members were such stuff as clients are made of and he maintains friendly relations, keeps in touch with their secrets, though seldom seen by them. Boolkie, gang leader, "said it will be a great thing for the gang to have its own mouthpiece...
...more elaborate is illustrated by that brilliant but elusive lady who flashes about the dilettant magazines in purple seas of color-reproduction under the pseudonym of "Fish." The other illustrator, also an Englishwoman, is Hope Weston, who says she has tried to dip her paintbrush in star stuff to do justice to the "illumined unreason" of the Persian singer...
...District Attorney of New York is not dazzled by this array of flashing, pin-point eyes and whetted consciences. Nor is he to be caught entrusting his city's character to a body of plain civilians like the Play Jury. No people except the New York Police are proper stuff for cleaning out the theatres, nobody but the Grand Jury is capable of judging and handling this rottenness in the body politic. The explanation for this stand is plain; the city government means to recruit more policemen, whether by fair means or foul...
Where the word "hokum" came from is clear enough. "Hocus pocus" is a veteran in good standing, meaning " to trick, sham or cheat." Obviously it crept into the theatrical vocabulary through the realization that presenting a new play, skit or act full of old stuff is in a sense cheating the audience...
...College Spirit. "The day a young man arrives he's told he must love his college. God knows why. If he'd gone anywhere else, he'd be supposed to settle his affections there. . . . That's silly, sentimental stuff. I don't object to a youth loving his college. But I do object if there's a reason for it. College is too good to be cared for in that fashion...