Word: stuffs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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YOUR DISPARAGING COMMENT ABOUT GOLDBLATT BROTHERS IS AN ALL TIME HIGH FOR NEWS REPORTING THAT HITS BELOW THE BELT AND IS MADE OF THE NASTY STUFF THAT FANS THE FLAMES OF RACE PREJUDICE. HAS TIME INHERITED THE DISTINCTION OF BECOMING HITLER'S MOST HELPFUL MOUTHPIECE IN AMERICA? YOUR COURAGEOUS PUBLICATION SHOULD SIDE STEP THE TEMPTATION OF TAKING OCCASIONAL WALLOPS AT THE JEWS. HAPPY NEW YEAR...
Slow gin! Good Lord! It's the fastest damn stuff I ever met; and I have met some rapid liquor in my 51 years in the tropics...
...column of involved technicalities, featured by a formula containing a number of "n'a", "x'a", and "y's". The first edition carried the story, but it was rewritten for succeeding editions after the city editor had called up and asked, "Say, what the hell is this stuff, anyway. We don't know what it means...
...office, in a tall building or plowing a 40-acre field, fighting chinch bugs or grasshoppers, or going down in a mine to get ore, standing at a loom, sweating at a forge, or working in a forest. All these are real. No falsetto here. No emotional stuff-but hard reality. . . . Landon has always touched reality. He has always faced life at first hand. He is no theorist, and the Lord be praised, he is no orator...
Closer to home were graver distractions. Butter prices were skyhigh. New Yorkers at Buffalo, where butter was selling at 37? per Ib., were crossing to Fort Erie, Ont., buying the stuff for 24? per Ib. in spite of a vigilant campaign by U. S. customs agents against butter-legging. High butter prices did not indicate prosperity for Bossy's boss. On the contrary, drought has parched pastures of New York's great Mohawk Valley, sent feed prices up as much as 70%. Hard as it might be on city folks, it looked as if the dairyman would have...