Word: stuffs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Melville E. Stone [an A. P. founder] must be turning in his grave if he is aware of the kind of sob stuff that is now appearing in the Associated Press reports. . . . Mr. Kent Cooper, the present able general manager . . . has broken with tradition after tradition of the service- the comic strips are his latest venture. So the Associated Press has long since abandoned its original conception of being a service devoted exclusively to the gathering of news; it is now engaged in the merchandising of purely amusement features. ... I append two of them [human interest stories] which I clipped...
...Such stuff is mere badinage?yet here and there among Martet's anecdotes for cooks is a bit of Clémenceau thought as hard and fundamental as anything in Grandeur et Misere...
...Lorillard Co. Old Golds are said to be paying for themselves now, and Lorillard is concentrating on this brand and the 5? Rocky Ford cigar (When It's Got the Stuff a Nickel's Enough). While the trend toward a few popular brands has helped Old Golds, it has hurt Lorillard's onetime large business in Turkish cigarets (Helmar, Deities, Mogul, Murad). Officials estimate that 1930 earnings will be more than the $1,336,656 of last year, which would be the first increase in five years...
...been catching rivets from Jim Maloney for many days. Fairly soon the new Buick will be paid for and the Missus can get a new spring coat. The foreman down below is enjoying a comfortable pipe between his rounds of inspection. Lots of work and more coming. Great stuff, these House Plans. If the company continues to make money this way there's no telling what new jobs might open...
...manner saturated with melancholy the role of a young woman who, innocently compromised, has been divorced by her husband. She goes to work as a dancer in a roof garden show and after a while becomes the mistress of the resort's richest habitue. All daring stuff when Miss Griffith made Lilies of the Field as a silent picture, the little plot seems mild enough now, and its denouement, in which the girl marries her lover, can be foreseen by the end of the first reel. Corinne Griffith's charm is the only thing that gets it over...