Word: stuffs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...impulse seizes him and recreates it in a new and more wonderful form which he has discovered." Hearstwriter Brisbane of the New York Evening Journal, stung to rage by a Picasso abstraction, reproduced it last fortnight, added, "You feel ashamed for the human race when you realize that stuff as this [sic] is actually shown and bought by people supposed to be sane...
Exuberantly Mediterranean, dear to the hearts of Young Italy, are these words which open the chorus of the official Fascist anthem. But the accompanying music, though certainly no worse than that of many another patriotic song, is what Variety calls "umpa umpa stuff." It is more singable, more lively than "The Star-Spangled Banner" but immeasurably less musical than "Die Wacht Am Rhein," the Tsarist anthem, or the Haydn tune which the Austrian Empire took for its national hymn. It was natural, then, that the whole world of music should have risen in arms during the last month because...
...turn upon his accuser and answer, "Oh just, reading the Ads." It is the one lie he permits himself. Nevertheless there are some good stories, especially for this time of year. All about earnest young men, and clean souled, beautiful women and and love. Oh its the real stuff and nonsense...
...Dzerjinski Place to Theatre Place while traffic scattered and passengers clung screaming to their seats. At the bottom of the hill the car jumped the tracks so violently that its body was torn from the trucks. One woman was killed, six persons gravely injured. Alexandra Semeena, built of stern stuff, was unscathed. Inspectors discovered that the brakes were in perfect condition, had not even been applied...
...Detroit, Russell Rodgers, moving man, was hailed into court by his wife, who charged that he frequently got drunk and beat her. The Court asked: "When do you get the whiskey?" Russell Rodgers replied: "Every day I work. When people move, they take stuff out of the cellar. They get most kind hearted and insist that you have a drink. You do it as a matter of courtesy...