Word: stuffs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...used to charge a fee, plus expenses, for such speeches. In May 1923, he asked and received $250 for a Memorial Day address to the United Patriotic Societies, Inc., at Bridgeport, Conn. This fee rose to plague him in the 1924 presidential campaign when Democrats denounced it as "cheap stuff," when Republicans insisted it was a "customary charge...
Composer. The music of Rimsky-Korsakov is shining, ornamental stuff, richly Russian in its sheen. That it is smooth, well made, is a never-ending source of wonder to those acquainted with the facts of his career. For Nicolas Andreievich Rimsky-Korsakov did not begin life as a musician. He was sent to the Naval College at St. Petersburg as befitted the son of an aristocrat. For eleven years he served in the navy, on one cruise visited the U. S. But all that time his thoughts were on music-on the sort that a small Jewish band had played...
Josef Suss. The revenge plot, which occurred so often in early drama, is no longer considered exciting stuff. For revenge is stimulated by rage and rage is too direct and elementary an emotion to interest modern playgoers. Therefore this handsomely apparelled drama about a rich Jew of Württemberg whose virginal daughter is driven to suicide by the approaches of a knavish Duke, and who subsequently causes the Duke's downfall by way of atonement, seems like mechanical puppetry. It is an adaptation by Ashley Dukes of episodes from Lion Feuchtwanger's potent novel Power (Jud Suss...
...There are no such things as starving artists. If they were artists they wouldn't be starving. I've investigated them. Always their work is scratchy stuff that has to be explained. You can't tell what it is by looking at it. If they could paint portraits of women and children which are just as essential to a household as furniture and carpets, they wouldn't go hungry."-Thus, last week, Mrs. Herbert Claiborne Pell of the New York Junior League, 43, socialite grandmother, prefacing a renewal of her painting activities...
Pittsburgh would feel the heat and be tired from the ride, and who was Pittsburgh, anyway? In their nine straight victories this year they had not played the kind of stuff that was on Southern California's schedule. So figured Californians, more confident than ever when they felt the blaze of sunlight in the Rose Bowl. Every seat had been said for weeks. A whistle pricked the piled heat, and a minute later trim, curly-haired, squat Toby Uansa of Pittsburgh jumped through left tackle, snaked 68 yards. His wits spun after the tackle and he played...