Word: stuffs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...were in the starting lineup a week ago, and all of them went the greater part of the distance against the heavy, driving Crusaders. Men like Charlie Kessler, Jim Maser, Captain Shaun Kelly, Emile Dubiel, little George Hedblom, and the indestructible Johnny Adzigian all proved that they have the stuff to last out almost any opposition...
...goes. Generation after generation of American voters, falling for the same old stuff Barnum gave them in the Greatest Show on Earth. There's a sucker born every minute, and at twenty-one he becomes a voter. America is like a bass drum, big and noisy. Step right inside, folks, On with the show...
Even if his radio contract is not for a full year (they are generally signed with 13-week cancellation clauses) teh arithmetic is still pretty obvious. Mr Nichols may not know that an income of 1,500 per year is considered pretty fancy stuff by most of what he calls "the American public" and the fact that they consider him and his associates "a wealthy group" can scarcely be called laboring under a delusion...
...widely sold (80,000 volumes in 1915-16). To a generation that had revolted against the superficial optimism, the stock poses of genteel poets, the 200-odd austere epitaphs of Spoon River were more than an expression of honest and fruitful defiance. They seemed to prove that the common stuff of U. S. backyard existence, the daily labors, the aspirations, even the graceless material of small-town gossip and slander, could be woven into a poetic pattern that need not lack dignity and significance...
Embryonic instrumentalists, toting everything from bass viols to disappearing rabbits, will file into the Music Building this and tomorrow evening from 7 to 8 o'clock. There they will "strut their stuff" before the heads of the five Instrumental Club organizations in an effort to prove themselves capable of entertaining Boston audiences, famed for their cold attitude toward everything theatrical...