Word: stuffs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Once, fiercely booed for 15 minutes, Mr. MacDonald left a Seaham platform without speaking while hundreds chorused, "You're a liar!" But more often Mac-Donald "platform magic" worked. The dignified, silver-haired Prime Minister won votes and wrung hearts by solemn sob-stuff. He dragged in his long dead wife: "In the old days, the first days, my wife and I had to pay for the postage of the Labor Party! We bought out of our own pockets-my wife and I-the very notepaper on which Labor's work was done. . . . Labor is in my blood...
Canada Dry Ginger Ale, Inc., whose product mixes well with stiffer stuff, echoed Coca-Cola's story. Starting with 1927. the year Ontario went from Dry to Wet, the company's U. S. and Canadian per capita sales have compared as follows...
...which has a tempo which corresponds to half of our heart-beat." For other cultural or even gustatory enjoyments he had no interest because no time. In his later years he lived principally on fruit, tapioca and milk. He once spoke of ". . . philosophy and the rest of that ninny stuff...
...from Nanking. With famished yells, Chinese in sampans and in tubs paddled for the plane, snatched at boxes of medical supplies which the two doctors proceeded to unload. "Ah, food!" cried a snatcher. Seizing some boxes of absorbent gauze he ripped one open, tried to eat the white stringy stuff, raged to find it not food. Other Chinese snatched, bit, fell to reviling the two doctors, one a Chinese. Said Colonel Lindbergh afterward: "It was one of the most heartrending, yet terrifying scenes I ever saw." Lest the plane be mobbed, swamped, destroyed, its motor roared. Dodging neatly between sampans...
...seven less than necessary to escape commitment. Teacher Friendly called Helen a moron, offered additional reasons why she should be sterilized: "The girl herself may turn out all right, but I don't think we want any of her progeny in this community . . . not the kind of stuff that makes good citizens . . . shiftless . . . little moral stamina though she knows the difference between right and wrong." She said that the family is "low-brow," and "riff-raff. . . . Neighbors complain that the children are a nuisance with their marauding habits and the family is unspeakably dirty...