Word: stuffs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...part in diabolic Amendments. Well, thank the Lord, that part is over with. Now for the next. Let's hope it will happen in waters too deep for the 18th Amendment-fish traps. . . . Well, here's how to you and all. Hope this is safer stuff. The other bottle went overboard, so the fish won't see the fish trap...
Almost everyone knows the early life of the man. How he went to Philadelphia to work as a printer. How he dropped into a bakery one night and bought great sticks of French bread. How his future wife laughed at him loafing up the street. This is all old stuff. His political and diplomatic career is also well enough known in the casual way. Everyone knows, that he foresaw the United States at Albany. There are countless stories of his graceful mots when he bowed low in the court of France. School boys are raised on the story...
...Where they came from interested Wall Street. No gold shipment of such size has cleared from the U. S. for Italy this year. Smug, the Bank of Italy (having probably obtained its U. S. gold via France) would admit only that Italy had got it, would use the precious stuff to keep her lira on the Gold Standard...
Then there this question of literature. There's "Vile Bodies" by Waugh, a book with the real smell of the earth in it. Or was it that Dam sun-like book about china? Amusing stuff, earth. Then there are post-war novels, thrilling they are, every hundred of them. Did Hemingway write "A Farewell to Arms" for nothing? Now there's a question. When America started there were people like Washington, Adams, and Jefferson around. Are they around now? Nope. Still, its pretty exciting...
...wrote most of his first book, Futility, which, it was hoped, would retrieve the family fortunes. It was at Oxford that Gerhardi began to be unimpressed by the great ones of the earth. At the Oxford Union he heard Lord Birkenhead ("a bully of genius"), Winston Churchill ("poor stuff for a grown...