Word: stuffs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Just a few lines to let you know I am well fed up with your line of Smart Aleck stuff. Your article on Great Britain [King George VI] in the May 15 issue is about as raw, fresh, uncalled for and unfriendly as anything I've read...
Colonel Lawrence confessed: "It was evident that if we won the war these promises would be dead paper, and had I been an honest adviser of the Arabs I would have advised them to go home and not risk their lives for such stuff. But I salved myself with the hope that by leading these Arabs madly in a final victory I would establish them with arms in a position so assured (if not dominant) that expediency would counsel a fair settlement of their claims...
Third Day. What Their Majesties had seen in the first whirlwind two days was mostly quaint, Arcadian stuff-a Frenchy people curious, appreciative but not essentially King-loving in the British manner. Beef-eating Ottawa more than made up for this...
William Lyon Phelps told a Booksellers Association luncheon: "Let children read a lot of trash. And by tact and sympathy they can be led to read better books. Don't try to stuff books down their throats...
...style somewhat since last hearing, still plays very stiffly himself and his rhythm section sounds as if it were descended from the proud line of Pinocchio. On slow tunes, things were much better, the band displaying an indifferent Goodman style sweet. However, on the so-called "killer-diller" stuff, not even the rankest jitterbug could find much satisfaction with Mr. James playing such tricks as using the beginning of "Bach Goes To Town" and most of the famous Berigan chorus from the Benny Goodman record on "King Porter Stomp" . . . Rumor's flying around that Stan Brown's Gold Coast Orchestra...