Word: stuffs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...market. At the peak of the bull market he was elected a director of an investment trust. At his first (and last) meeting the directors were discussing what to do with their stocks. Errett Cord was silent until someone asked him what he thought. He answered: "I think the stuff you own is lousy and a hunch of hooey. Throw it all out." Shocked, the directors ignored his advice, to their everlasting regret. He resigned soon afterward...
...ancient puns on "reality." In reality he was deadly serious. Said he: "Reality is the most alluring of all courtesans, for she makes herself what you would have her at the moment. But she is no rock on which to anchor your soul, for her substance is of the stuff of shadow; she has no existence outside your own dreams and is often no more than the reflection of your own thoughts shining upon the face of nature. The materialist will tell me that . . . he sees me standing here, a three-dimensional being, with length, breadth and thickness, and that...
...which is Leverett House," he said with biblical grandeur. It was as he picked Bunny Leverett up by his long aristocratic ears, holding it aloft so that every one could see, that the immortal nature of the rabbit was discovered; its sawdust interior was felt to be of sterner stuff than the ordinary run of toy store rabbits...
...haven't got a job yet. Nobody has been told how to get me started or to take charge of teaching me things. I haven't the slightest idea what I'm to do." Asked about his literary ambitions, he replied: "That's all old stuff and it's all been explained...
...Orrtanna. Pa., Father Will Whalen saved $60 by buying a secondhand tombstone, having the inscription chiseled off, his own name cut in its place. Said Father Whalen: "I'm used to secondhand stuff...