Word: stuffs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Hollis--"Her Majesty the Widow". Old stuff dished up in an entertaining manner. Story of the vicissitudes of the wayward son of a family with traditions...
...play of well known type containing well known characters, this carries nevertheless, a mantle of freshness. Old stuff, this, but it clicks...
...editor of the Smith College Monthly, Mrs. Elizabeth Cutter Reeves Morrow has written much, has seen her gentle verses published in half a score heavy-paper monthlies. In 1931, a few months before Knopf published 46 of them under the title Quatrains for My Daughter* she remarked: "The stuff of poetry is happy memories in the heart." Last week three new poems by Mrs. Morrow appeared in the Atlantic Monthly. They revealed unhappy memories in the heart, memories of March 1931 when her grandson Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr. was kidnapped and murdered. Excerpts...
Much of Colonel Lawrence: The Man Behind the Legend will be old stuff to Lawrence enthusiasts, but they will want to read it if only for the 14,000 words of quotations from Lawrence's unpublished papers. Liddell Hart, military expert, places Lawrence's Arabian campaign in relation to the rest of the World War and gives the clearest exposition of it extant. He deprecates the view that Lawrence's success as a leader of irregular troops came from innate genius, calls Lawrence a profound student of tactics, a military thinker. Basis of Lawrence's tactical...
...about the rest of our dramatis personae? Hurley has left for parts hence, a discredited politician, doomed by the phrase "hit and run." Ely, whichever way he jumps, has lost the support of literates who once believed him above such stuff, Dillon has played a very small part indeed, indicating plainly enough that his job is as yet too big for him. The Boston Herald advertising itself "a Republican paper and proud of it" has muffed its big chance to pin the Governor, and has lost a good slice of circulation to boot...