Word: stuffs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mind that what you read is not what Congress does but what it says. You seldom find the quiet, modest, statistical speeches of the gentleman who will be the new Secretary of State, Senator Hull. He has made many such speeches. But let Huey Long get off some stuff and that is front-page material...
...Arthur Clinton Hendrick, Toronto surgeon who was handling Mrs. R- F-'s cancer, decided to cease X-rays and try intravenous injections of colloidal metallic arsenic. His good friend, Professor Eli Franklin Burton, University of Toronto physicist, had originated the preparation of colloidal arsenic. Putting the stuff into Mrs. R- F-'s veins was a risky business. Arsenic, used medicinally to improve the blood's condition, is a poison. The woman with cancer in her leg approved the risk. Three months later the broken bone mended itself. Today, a year & a half after beginning the colloidal arsenic...
...Passed the $16,588,878 Legislative Appropriation bill; sent it to the Senate. A proposal to cut Representatives' salaries from $10,000 to $7,500 was howled down (145-to-32) without a record vote amid cries of "Grand stand stuff! Demagoguery! Millionaire control of the House...
Literarily speaking, Brother Julian and Sister Anne Green are not on speaking terms. Unpopular Brother Julian writes serious psychological tragedies, about as intelligent and depressing as they come. Best-selling Sister Anne dashes off entertaining stuff about far-from-highbrow worldlings. Her conversational style is growing on her to such an extent that she no longer bothers very much to punctuate: " 'We are heading for the Luxembourg gardens, will you sit there with me for a moment, I'll drive you home, I bet that you dine at half-past seven...
...because they are in a sheet open to the public for a few pennies. His ears 'Relieve more than his eyes and the gossip of a board meeting he is apt to peddle as "gospel" among his flattering cronies. He honestly thinks that Washington is teeming with "inside stuff" which the Press misses and he, as an able citizen, should have. But the Washington scene as it strikes his untrained eye in headlines leaves him dizzy and confused. To straighten out his perspective and give him the facts he does not bother to hunt out for himself...