Word: stuffs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...neck with his long knife, wets his fingers in the spurting blood and tastes it. Actually headhunters often become too enthusiastic, turn the ceremony into a free-for-all. Head-taking, like scalping among American Indians, adds war-glory to the individual warrior. In addition, heads bring soul-stuff into the tribe, which benefits everyone by increasing crops, making women and cattle more prolific, driving away pestilence...
...similar devices will not enjoy The Life of the Party. It is a slapstick feature with Winnie Lightner and Irene Delroy as a pair of golddiggers who are discharged from a music store, raid a dressmaking establishment, and go to Havana looking for kind old men. It is stupid stuff, yet funny. Best line: a horse-racing Colonel (Charles Butterworth), seeing his entry turn around and run the wrong way when a black cat crosses the track: "Ah, the pity...
...Simple Stuff...
...Brown; Harris M. Hanshue, president of the line; Earl Wadsworth, superintendent of airmail; Amelia Earhart. Cargo was eight sacks of mail. Well before noon the vanguard plane was past Camden (Philadelphia's airport of entry) and into the Alleghenies via Harrisburg. Here the pilots watched out for "dirty stuff," the fog, snow & sleet that had harassed Chairman of the Technical Committee Charles Augustus Lindbergh on his inspection tour two days prior...
...comparable to the present position since the darkest hours of the War!" cried Mr. Lloyd George. "Unemployment is growing, not by battalions but by divisions, week by week, and I cannot see the end of it. We are not passing through but passing into a crisis!" This was old stuff, but of the same quality that won 5,000,000 Liberal votes at the last election. What was new came next. Earlier in the week, Sir William Philip Morris, famed small-motor-car tycoon, had drummed up another committee of "foremost British industrialists," including Jewish Baron Melchett to try again...