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Word: stuffs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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What a Fool I've Been and / Hate Myself (Victor)-As usual the Ohman-Arden piano combination makes second-rate stuff sound like something...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: March Records | 3/9/1931 | See Source »

...little girl was immeasurably shocked & revolted, went home and told her father. He, Rev. Byron Christopher Nelson, vigorous young Lutheran minister, bounced off to a Kiwanis Club luncheon, read passages from the book, A Child's History of the World. Said he: ". . . There is plenty of other stuff to teach." (He is author of After Its Kind, considered authoritative by antievolutionists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Umfa Umfa, Glug Glug | 2/16/1931 | See Source »

That this sort of nonsense should emanate from the great and powerful university at Cambridge, and worse, that it should appear on what has often been called the most mature undergraduate editorial page in the country is indeed sad, sad stuff. A CRIMSON editor, up for an original idea or comment, decided to be nonchalant. Instead of reaching for a Murad, he reached for the dictionary and the result is one of those stupid editorials that try to be different and end in being ridiculous...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESS | 2/11/1931 | See Source »

There is an abundance of lyrical description of the surrounding countryside through the actors' lines. Possibly because she has less of this beautiful but unlifelike stuff to put across, Helen Westley, as Laurey's crusty old aunt, easily carries off the acting honors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Feb. 9, 1931 | 2/9/1931 | See Source »

...breath. I might as well say right at the start that I think it's marvelous the way you have kept it up to its high inspirational note throughout these long and happy years. The Student Vagabond has a Big Message. I think and I think that you have stuff to put it over. As my last professor in English A said about Shakespeare: "his dashing vigour of phrase has all the earmarks of diablerie in pen and ink." And her I am saying it about you! Well! And all the boys will tell you that I'm usually pretty...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 2/4/1931 | See Source »

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