Word: stuffs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...little confused over its general aim and import, at the same time delights through the rich variety of its mingled intellectual, poetic, and dramatic offerings. The theme is that of a proud man. Thomas a Beckett, Archbishop of Canterbury, seeking and winning martyrdom. But interlarded with this central stuff are a chorus of sombre monks and another of wailing women who at one point rival 'the witches of "Macbeth' in their catalogue of the disgusting; paeans of religious fervor including an intellectual indictment of atheism; and, most daringly ingenious of all, an apology spoken by the murderers in the present...
...Stuff. The possibilities of gas as a military weapon were thought of long before the World War. During the U. S. Civil War, Brigadier General W. N. Pendleton of the Confederate Army wrote to an ordnance officer asking whether "stink shells" which he had seen mentioned in a newspaper could not be used in 12-pounder howitzers and whether "the explosion can be combined with suffocating effect of certain offensive gases." The stink shells were not tried. At The Hague Conference of 1899 an agreement banning the use of gas projectiles was signed by 24 nations including Germany. After...
When fillers were needed for the paper, Kipling wrote them: verse (Departmental Ditties) or prose (Plain Tales from the Hills). Other Indian papers began to buy his stuff; soon there were half a dozen paperbacked books signed Kipling on Indian railway bookstalls. By now Kipling had some money saved up. He turned his back on India and apprenticeship, returned to England to dip his fiery pen into the Thames. Almost immediately the Thames took fire. At 24 Kipling was the literary man of the hour. He cannily steered clear of cliques, ran foul of no colleagues. "I have never directly...
...Democratic Nominee Roosevelt made headlines by announcing that he had appointed a committee headed by Secretary of Agriculture Wallace to work out a plan of crop insurance. Up from Topeka rose realistic howls of pain and rage as Landon handlers claimed the President was stealing their man's stuff. Snatching it from his forthcoming speech, they rushed the Landon crop insurance program to the press: "I believe that the question of crop insurance should be given the fullest attention" (TIME...
...their rendition of the martial hymn, there is somehow a terrible heroism. And the theme of the play, if we may be allowed to extract it out of the molten swirl of observations on Communism, Fascism, the League of Nations, Germany, Italy, England, the Middle West, yea-man hot stuff, is that men, despite the foul mess they kick up now and then, are essentially decent animals, except for one percent consisting of such specimens as international munitions-makers...