Word: stuffs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...These people, whispered the ward executive, as he was being introduced, don't care a damn about the tax rate, or the schools, or the health department, or any other issue of the campaign. All they care about is this antivivisection stuff. If you are with them on that, they will be with you, and if you are against them, they will be against you to a man. They are worth about 1,500 votes. There are no reporters here and if you say the right thing we can get them...
Vincent Richards, national indoor tennis champion, is one of the few athletes who " writes his own stuff"; for newspapers-i. e., does not sign articles written by someone else. Richards, in The Philadelphia North American: " Molla [Mallory] has been fighting against Old Father Time for quite some years. The climax came when she suffered that crushing defeat at the hands of little Helen Wills. . . . Her recent defeat by Miss Eleanor Goss seems to confirm this belief...
...know that much careful work . . is bringing blessings to all mankind. I am wealthy, healthy and happy in my work.' I have been represented as a very tired, disgruntled old man, neglected by an unappreciative world.' I characterized such as '"Sob stuff...
...imagine you are made of better stuff because you have money. You will only be respectfully laughed...
...Most of my popular slang phrases and sayings originated in San Francisco. The once over, ' 23,' run out powder, hire a hall, jitney, flivver, Larry turn the crank, get your goat, where d'ye get that stuff, and hundreds of others came from there...