Word: stuffs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Bing Crosby, radio singer, is the feature of the present program. We liked his well-planned arrangement of "Was that the Human Thing to Do?" and "Dinah." A finale, "My Woman" on the other hand, was poor stuff, an unnecessary and undesirable resurrection of that "she treats me mean, but what...
Congressman La Guardia: Ballyhooed ?rigged! This one man Plummer paid out $286,271 during the course of his operations. ... He is a very smart young man, a writer of high-powered stuff...
...great fear of the experts is not for people who drink radioactive water under doctors' orders (there are no longer many of those), but people who buy the stuff on their own responsibility. There is usually something of the proselytizer in people who stimulate themselves with tonics. A notable one in the news last week was Mayor James John Walker of New York. One of his good friends, a Mrs. Clarabelle Walsh who lives in the Hotel Plaza, advised him to drink the stuff because "he was suffering so." Three times a day he squeezes the rubber bulb...
...farewell. The music, dictated by Delius note by note to his young friend Eric Fenby, was accepted by Britishers as a worthy epilog to a quiet, distinguished musical career. Fifty years ago Delius' parents did all they could to thwart their musical son. They wanted him for the stuff & yarn trade. When he refused they sent him to Florida to tend an orange grove. Thereafter Delius spent little time in England. He studied in Leipzig for a while, settled finally in France to write gentle, sombre music, much of it reminiscent of England...
...read a postcard from Carcassonne, France, but as all he could see was "Having a swell time, wish you were here," he discarded it into a mailbox and shouldered his bag anew. "That is the trouble with education; they try to fill you full of a lot of stuff that never will do you any good. I suppose Greek and Latin are going to help you make money, or Shakespeare to do a good job delivering letters? My son isn't going to take any of that stuff--he's going to take practical subjects, Chemistry, Physics, Manual Training, accountancy...