Word: stuffs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Elizabethan days every dramatist was a poet, every playgoer a poetry lover. But nowadays poets generally leave their Muse behind when they go to town. To most moderns, poetic drama means selfconscious, little-theatre stuff-&-nonsense. Ambitious Poet Archibald MacLeish (Conquistador), seeing no good reason for the modern notion that Poetry is by nature a bad actor, has tried his hand at a verse-play. His first attempt. Panic, took him 16 months to write.* Playgoing readers will find it an exciting experiment, will hope Author MacLeish's example may attract some others...
...Harvard man, according to the Smith girls, is an "effete, supercilious, broad A, intellect," an a Yale man, says Radcliffe, is one of a group of "rah, rah boys who ask silly questions like this one." Dartmouth is, however, "good for weekends" (Winter Carnival stuff). Williams and Amherst are dismissed with even less courtesy than the Bruins...
Just what this slate will be is anyone's guess, for any man who teaches a modified Warner system is eligible if the new Head Coach thinks he has the stuff. All that can be predicted is that Wes Fesler alone of the present staff seems to stand a good chance of holding his job under the new regime...
Plucked from every Monday morning's mail on some 20,000 U. S. desks is the Kiplinger Washington Letter, a shrewd, crackling appraisal of current news. It is not, as many suppose, a digest of Capital gossip or confidential "inside stuff." Published and edited by a onetime Associated Press Washington correspondent, the weekly Kiplinger letter is a service for subscribers who are "pretty well fed up on facts. They want evaluation, so that facts fit together and mean something...
...this list of moundsmen the veteran Bill Lincoln ranks No. 1 on the basis of his performance a year ago. As yet Lincoln hasn't had a chance to show his stuff this season because of his hockey activities. He shares the glory of being an oldtimer with Drib Braggiotti, the pitcher who stepped into the limelight so sensationally in 1934 against Providence and Pennsylvania...