Word: stuffs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Henry Mapp, who had been Evangeline Booth's chief rival for the generalship. Frail and well-meaning U. S. Ambassador Robert Worth Bingham, who saves his strength for just such an occasion, throbbed at Miss Booth: "She, her father and her family come from that rare and precious stuff of which saints and martyrs have been made. England has given much to my country. . . . But I doubt if they've ever given us a greater gift than in giving us this great woman, this great leader. Now with gratitude we give her back to you." Replied Miss Booth...
...clinkers, decayed fish-with which wild-eyed people rush to chemical laboratories to learn whether they have found the sperm whale secretion which is used as a base for expensive perfumes. No such delusion had small, apple-cheeked Roderick Palmer Crandall when he found a chunk of waxy, yellowish stuff near his grandfather's home at Islesboro. To him it was just something which bobbed up with a satisfying swoosh when he pushed it under water. Soon the shorewise eye of Roderick's carpenter-father Hezekiah fell upon it. He sent specimens off to several chemists. Last week...
...William Frederick Koch of Detroit announced in 1919 that he had invented ''a synthetic chemical compound of very definite molecular arrangement" which cured cancer. He refused to describe the stuff. Doctors branded him a quack. People whom he claimed to have cured, doctors argued, either never had cancer or, as occasionally happens, recovered spontaneously. Dr. Koch argued that his critics were hostile because his chemical would curtail their profitable cancer business. He proceeded to establish a reputation among laymen, one of whom was Mr. Anderson, onetime railroader. Wartime civilian recruiter for the Army, onetime propagandizer for the Veterans...
...loot--the stuff that was stolen last week when the big Grant jewelry store was robbed. Watches and diamonds--nearly a sackful. He'll get $200 reward...
After the convention of the New York State Federation of Women's Clubs in Buffalo, Anna Steese Richardson, editor (Woman's Home Companion) and playwright (Big Hearted Herbert) sputtered: "It's the same old stuff we have had for 30 years. The same contralto singer. The same old blah, blah, blah all over again. It makes me wild....We are headed inevitably for Fascism and yet the club women go on with the same old stuff and the average woman in the American home .cares no more about the way in which her city, state, and Federal...