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Word: stuffs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...combination of Greta Garbo's acting with one of Eugene O'Neill's best plays is not entirely satisfactory, but blame for the lost opportunity does not fall on either Garbo or O'Neill. In spite of a certain proportion of bunkum in its composition, Antia Christie is good stuff, vivid and well-constructed, with real people in it, and Garbo, as the Swedish girl who blames her luckless past on her father's neglect, is perfectly cast. One reason why this talkie is inferior to the wonderful silent picture made from the play six years ago is that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Mar. 3, 1930 | 3/3/1930 | See Source »

...formal confession did she send to Governor Bilbo but rather a long rambling rhyme, which was generally printed throughout the South where few recognized it as the stuff of folklore. Primitively sing song, it markedly resembled the ballads that cowboys, railroaders, other migrant workers hear, repeat, embroider and spread throughout the Mid Far West...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Murder in Rhyme | 2/24/1930 | See Source »

Born in Dublin where his lawyer father still lives, Joyce was educated for the Catholic priesthood at Clongowes Wood College, Belvedere College, Royal University. But Joyce was not the stuff of which priests are made. At nine he wrote a pamphlet against Parnell; at 22 he left Ireland and the Church for good. After exile in Rome, Trieste, Zurich, he settled in Paris; supported life by teaching, directing plays; finished his first great opus, Ulysses. The book was published in Paris (1922) by Bookseller Sylvia Beach, spinster daughter of a Princeton, N. J., Presbyterian divine. Because of its obscene passages...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Kaleidoscopic Recamera | 2/17/1930 | See Source »

...rights of other individuals involved in the practice of demolishing subway rolling stock, such conduct hardly reflects credit upon the rioters themselves or upon the institution which in the popular mind they represent. The Boston Traveler is to be congratulated on recognizing the fact that "this sort of Siwash stuff" is not in fact representative of Harvard; others, less discriminating are not likely to be so generous if the subway customs of the last two years become a tradition...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: STUDENT, THIRD CLASS | 2/15/1930 | See Source »

That sort of Siwash stuff does not go at Harvard. It might be all right in some talk-town college in the middle 'Vest we are the yokels cut up to impress co-aids, but it is an indication that have crept into Harvard youngsters ist behind the ears and sadly in bibs...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESS | 2/15/1930 | See Source »

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