Word: stuffs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...French say; that is, with Professor Herbert Reed, for example, Annette Vallon was the all-sufficient reason while others have averred that it was Wordsworth's adoption of Tory principles after his disgust with the French Revolution due to the invasion of Switzerland. "The Ecclesiastical Sonnets" are indeed sorry stuff after the "Tintern Abbey," the "Prelude" and the "Ode on Intimations of Immortality." "In fact," as a CRIMSON editor of yore once wrote, "most of Wordsworth's later poems written while he was a stamp-distributor or laureate have to be taken by us moderns with a bromo-seltzer!" This...
...Merwin and Lou Liggett were boys together on the streets of Detroit. Then their ways parted for 25 years; when they met again they had both made the grade. Liggett's career has enough forge-ahead stuff for three Horatio Alger stories. His Scottish-Dutch ancestry gave him a big body, unbounded assurance, tireless ambition. By the time he was 21 he had a house, a wife, a ponycart and $7,000 in the bank. His first independent venture, with a bankrupt store, was typical. Overnight he painted long rows of red footsteps leading to his shop, was arrested...
...overloaded, but the success of such modern miners as Lion Feuchtwanger (Power, The Ugly Duchess) and Alfred Neumann (The Devil) showed a renewing demand. Last week's medieval romance. Dew in April, did not assay nearly so high as Power orThe Devil, but it was much solider stuff than last year's highly touted The Fool of Venus (TIME, March 19, 1934). English Author John Clayton, new to the U. S. will not start a critic's gold rush, but Hollywood may well lift up its eyes to his auriferous hills...
...silver States made speeches and urged new bills in Congress. International silver merchants excitedly bid up the world price to 65?. But the U. S. public and U. S. stockmarkets remained calm. Two years ago they would have frothed and foamed at such news but now it was old stuff. Stocks failed to bound upward. Pulses (outside the Senate) failed to beat faster...
...there; it is necessary to look about a bit for beauty." Author Paul has looked & looked, seems not quite sure what his view adds up to. He modestly dedicates The Pumpkin Coach to Critic Burton Rascoe, who once avowed: "I am so constituted that I had rather read bad stuff than nothing." But Author Paul does not do himself justice : his book, in spots, is even truer than it is beautiful. Readers who liked John Boynton Priestley's The Good Companions will find the same sort of indiscriminating gusto in The Pumpkin Coach...