Word: stuffs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Henri, Jean Ill's hitherto un obtrusive Dauphin, showed unexpectedly the stuff of which practical politicians are made. Dropping the aloof dignity which is the badge of most legitimate pretenders, France's Henri, who is barred by law from his native land, rose up in Genoa to make what amounted to a fiery campaign speech. Down from Paris to hear him had gone hundreds of Camelots du Roi ("King's Henchmen"), the pick of French aristocracy. No sluggards, they do such chores in Paris as distributing the Royalist news paper, L' Action Fran...
...work he had to do. . . . Neither the President nor Secretary Wallace had any hand in pushing this trip to Europe. . . . Neither of us has resigned nor is going to be 'kicked out,' at least for anything we have done so far. . . . This trip is not New Deal stuff, it is in the interests of scientific agriculture." For Brain Truster Tugwell's furtive departure President Roosevelt at Hyde Park had a different explanation: process servers were looking for him in a suit filed against the Department of Agriculture...
...York newspapers brimmed with such stuff last week because of a dozen men who often get up before dawn to "go down the Bay." They are the first outpost of the U. S. Press army, and are known as ship news reporters...
When he read the Berlin news, Professor Francis Carter Wood, director of Columbia University's Institute for Cancer Research and editor of the American Journal of Cancer sneered: "This is all rot. There's nothing to it. Plenty of this sort of stuff is coming out of Germany just...
...Fleet No. 1 "defended" the Chinese port as if it were already part of Japan's Empire. Fleet No. 2 "attacked." In shame and humiliation the helpless captains of the few rickety Chinese war boats tied up at Taku went down into their cabins for a pipeful of the stuff that cheers...