Word: stuffs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fashion. At the beginning of the year a notice is sent to each student to the effect that all liquor within a radius of twenty miles of the college has been tested by the authorities and found unfit to drink. It is suggested that the students lay off the stuff too. Apparently no information is given as to where a one can get a decent drink, but presumably it is assumed that any bright boy with a college education ought to be able to find out such things for himself; those who can't find it don't deserve...
Most men take the course because they are led by its title to believe that they will be fed a lot of the kind of literature they love. This stuff is served to them, indeed, but so spiced with the salt and pepper of Mr. Babbitt's with that its taste is strange...
...social drama Up Pops The Devil is thin stuff, but as a comedy it is eminently successful. Albert Hackett, one of the two authors, does excellently in the part of a gin-witted journalist, saving a generous helping of the funny lines for himself. Learning that Miss Bates had left Mr. Pryor without informing him of the baby's imminence, he ingenuously inquires "Don't they tell fathers any more...
...Henry Louis Mencken was speaking, nor Oswald Garrison Villard, but their local counterpart in San Francisco?Editor Edward Morphy of San Francisco's old conservative weekly Argonaut. Said he: "The Argonaut is opposed to blah and sobsister stuff. Blah seems to be the present standard of American newspapers." Also is the Argonaut opposed to Prohibition, reformers, the Klan, Radicals. It is for Capital Punishment; has small patience with labor unions; delights in baiting the bustle and flamboyance of Los Angeles...
...betrayed by her boss's son, wins a husband for herself and gets possession of the fatherless baby by proving that she herself is the illegitimate daughter of the attorney defending the rich boy. Somehow a few moments of real dramatic power have been concocted out of this stuff and such moments are well utilized by Constance Bennett, who struggles through the rest of it as well as she can. Typical shot: the servant girl's baby in its mother's arms in court...