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Word: stuffs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...anything. They have newsprint on the free list and they don't keep enough on hand to pay any taxes on that. . . . They are using the mails to bring the Government a loss of $100,000 a year. . . . This idea is my own stuff...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTE: Vote Yes! | 7/23/1934 | See Source »

...some; and of all department stores on account of exciting underwear and wax models. If the statement of the producers is true that salacious motion pictures do attract the public, isn't it the fault of the churches in not stiffening the adolescent minds to automatically reject such stuff in boredom in the same way that we automatically ignore the excreta canis in our walks down the street...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 9, 1934 | 7/9/1934 | See Source »

...agree that it is no sport, shrug their shoulders over the impossibility of explaining its fascination to a foreigner. For parlor aficionados (fans), Ernest Hemingway's Death in the Afternoon (TIME, Sept. 26, 1932) is a compendious if somewhat arty guide. For plainer readers who prefer their foreign stuff wrapped in a good romantic yarn, Matador will do well. Marguerite Steen's cape-work is not so professional as Matador Hemingway's, but she puts on a good show...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Toro! | 7/9/1934 | See Source »

...Cincinnati archdiocese and 2,000,000 more throughout the U. S., the Legion last week made the following additional news in church and cinema worlds: Reported Variety: "The agents no longer know just what to consider dirty any more. . . . In contrast to the slow market for spicy stuff, there is a boom in interest in outdoor plots and other yarns that are spotless from a censor's view...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Legion of Decency (Cont'd) | 7/2/1934 | See Source »

...America's future lies in the hands of the young men of today. Of what stuff are these young men composed? In order to adequately split this infinitive and answer this question, we shall trace the career of a type specimen, Carlos Cantilever Grabblestump, Harvard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Festivities Of Class Day Marked With Ivy Oration And Stunts of Reunioners | 6/21/1934 | See Source »

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