Word: stuffs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Minneapolis (where he had long been police reporter on the Journal) broke and jobless. He borrowed a typewriter and, half for amusement, half with a vague hope of profit, began dashing off "hot" jokes and verses for his Army friends. Popularity was immediate. "Captain Billy" had to mimeograph his "stuff" to meet the demand, giving the sheet the title which persists: Captain Billy's Whiz Bang: "Explosion of Pedigreed Bull." With the backing of a small printer, the magazine went like wildfire. Ex-soldiers, salesmen, sporting men, bellhops and curious schoolboys bought Whiz Bang. The price-25?-soon...
...Director Doran said that alcotate's aroma is not unlike "spoiled eggs and garlic." One newshawk took a sip of it, made faces, said he thought it tasted like a compound of ether and benzine. Remarked Chemist Doran: "It's not as bad as some of the stuff you've been drinking...
...make you snicker are allusive, satirical, not always to be taken in at a glance, usually are capable of at least a double meaning. About half these pictures should make you laugh ; you may snicker at the rest. Whichever you do, you will admit that Peter Arno knows his stuff and knows how to draw it. The Author. Peter Arno (real name : Curtis Arnoux Peters) is a strapping big 29-year-old Manhattanite. After a year at Yale college, he went to Yale's School of the Fine Arts for a month, and considers the month wasted. Onetime jazz...
...Hall does so by satirizing conditions at a typical state university. Through one of his characters he indicts American amateur athletics vigorously and upholds the English ideal "sport for sport's sake." The story is trite, similar to any cinema of college life, and typical of the kind of stuff that appears in the popular fiction magazines. Even the indictment of athletics is outworn in this day when a change for the better has taken place and the football overemphasis bugaboo has been pretty well dispelled...
...Edmond D. ("Cobbie") Coblentz, longtime publisher of the San Francisco Examiner. He plucked the idea from a small news item from Copenhagen telling of the broadcast of a murder trial there. Writer Kenneth Ellis of the American's radio-news staff wrote the scenario, packed into it the stuff of which city editors' dreams are made: the knife thrown at Dancer Dolores Divine as she walks to the witness chair; the disappearance of the "mystery gun" from counsel's table while the courtroom lights are switched off (each incident occurring just at the close...