Word: stuffs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...courses in Religion are not being taught as they should be. They are frequently voted by the students to be 'the worst-taught courses in the curriculum.' We must teach fundamental dogmas rather than the frills and accidentals of Religion. . . . There is too much fluffy-ruffle stuff in pious books-entirely too much. I would like to take 90% of the spiritual books written and make a glorious bonfire of them, and their authors too, because they do not tell fundamental truths...
...Ritz Brothers, they haven't added any new stuff. Which is not to say they are declining but simply that they haven't improved. Familiarity breeds disinteredness, and certainly these three zanies are in their specialty number easier to resist than they were a year ago. Funniest is their plot work. Best of all their entrance, when, seated at a piano, one suddenly arises, and the others slide off an upset bench onto the floor...
...Strong stuff for even a medical audience, these newsreels were, from the stand-points of both horror and history, in many respects the most remarkable ever shown. For if the utter freakishness of the new usage of fighting wars in town instead of in the country has vastly increased the peril of noncombatants, it has at the same time advanced the efficiency of news coverage of the hostilities a hundredfold. For instance: on the afternoon of Aug. 14, three Chinese bombers flew over Shanghai's Bund, accidentally or intentionally slipped two bombs out of their bomb-racks and blew...
...AMERICAN STUFF-An Anthology-Viking ($2). Creative work of sincerity but varying merit, done by 66 WPA artists and writers from 20 States (in their spare time). Veterans include Vardis Fisher, Nathan Asch, Claude McKay, Vincent McHugh, Harry Kemp...
...motion was made to print Professor Davis' speech of welcome, Delegate James A. Meade of Chicago rose to shout: "I for one refuse to sit here and hear the president misrepresent the great body of American teachers. The rank and file don't want that kind of stuff. We're for the A. F. of L. regardless of what you want to do. You represent the C. P. but I don't know whether that stands for 'college professors' or 'Communist Party'." This gibe was greeted by a storm of boos...