Word: stuffs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...commercial enterprise. Harvard's position is unique in the collegiate scene when it comes to the high-pressure tactics, the money-magnetic propensities, the universally rotten influence of her tutors. Nowhere else do they openly exhibit their wares in the authorized student publications. Nowhere else do they presume to stuff their literature into student mail boxes for months without end, throughout the entire academic session. And nowhere else have they established themselves so securely that they dare embark on campaigns of respectability, making bold appeals directly to parents, whispering twisted words about their services to "maladjusted Freshmen" and kindred confused...
Attracted by the oozing sap, a winged bark louse flitted greedily around the tree. Alighting on the sticky stuff, he was soon stuck fast. A watchful spider darted toward the struggling louse, had almost reached him when the flow of sap engulfed both him and his quarry...
Winchell defended his column, "My attitude may seem a bit pompous to you but when you consider the stuff most of the columnist do include in their work, my approach can be excused. The ties, splits, and expectancies are of minor interest to me, and a close glance at my column will show that they are put in the background by my editorializing...
...finally captured, readily identified the looted houses. A few of his victims: Packer George A. Hormel; Cinemactors Gary Cooper, Tyrone Power, Miriam Hopkins, Carole Lombard; Director Frank Capra. Complained the phantom: "All of ... the movie boys and girls whose playthings I swiped . . . except Fanny Brice exaggerated the amount of stuff taken." Estimated total loot...
NEWSPAPERMAN STUFF: Edwin A. Lahey, the Chicago scribe now at Harvard (on one of the Nieman Fellowships) was asked by a Boston Gazette to do a guest drama criticism on the Harvard Hasty Pudding show, in which the college boys cavort as chorus girls. . . . Mr. Lahey didn't think much of the show and said so in his review, but the paper didn't print it. . . . Presumably because the event is always a big social moment in Boston and the home towners might be offended. . . . His wind-up bears repeating, however: "These shows were originally presented for the entertainment...