Word: stuffs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...racketeer-businessman is seduced from his comfortable wife by his unattractive but spiritual secretary, wishes when it is too late that he had not fallen for that high-brow stuff...
...nation's S. P. C. A.'s, Manhattan's especially, last week prepared to invoke state criminal codes to prohibit the sale of baby chicks as Easter toys, since few grown-ups know how to feed or bed them, and children squeeze, trample, stuff, chase them to early death. First result of S. P. C. A. pressure was Newark, N. J.'s health office order last week prohibiting sale of Easter chicks because "many died in stores and store windows...
Lounging in flowered silk pajamas 3,000 miles away on the estate of Tammany Counsel Samuel Untermyer. Mayor Walker dismissed the accusations as "old stuff." Although he failed to make further comment, his home town press played-up stories about the beneficent effect of California sunshine on his health, accompanied by photographs of him wrapped in sheets, lolling in the sun. Adjacent to one such picture the World-Telegram printed a photograph of Mrs. Walker on her vacation-in Florida...
...What kind of clothes do you American women wear?" asked Mrs. Gandhi examining the stuff of Mrs. Johnston's dress. "Is it silk or satin? Is it hand-made or factory-made...
Renee, new to the U.S. is vieux jeu (old stuff) in France, was published in Paris in 1910. But that will not worry Colettists, who will find Renee a typical Colette novel, well up to the Colette standard of sense & sensibility...