Word: stuffs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Away With Such Stuff...
...column The Spectator continues to print Strachey conservatism; in another Massingham Socialism; and in a third, the irate letters which exclaim typically : "Away with such stuff from the columns of The Spectator...
...West has swallowed the Hyman-Welly show, and Patricia cannot be found. In some small mountain town she is doing her stuff for the dusty miners, unconscious of a higher destiny among the gaudy longshoremen at Long Beach...
Correspondents were in accord as to the new Senator's dialect. He said for himself: "I ain't ignorant and a lot of this stuff that you read in the papers making me say things I didn't is all bunk. ... I didn't say that I didn't give a dam about books. I mean, I didn't say it that way. Some books ain't worth readin' and some are. I ain't got much time for 'em, but I would read 'em if I had time to read 'em.'' As for his favorite author, he declared...
...symbol for sinful frivolity in New York, Junction City and Pleasantville. So he told the hotel porter and the porter got him a ticket for a real good show at a theatre possibly named the Vaudeville. "Ah," thought the American, practicing a wicked wink. Now ] 11 see some snappy stuff! " He went?and discovered himself viewing a gay little piece entitled Pasteur, a review of that scientist's early life and struggles, all full of the most interesting information on pasteurizing, but with not a pair of gilt slippers or a double-entendre in the cast. So, just to avoid...