Word: stuffs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...just foreclosed on the home, beach tearoom and land which Mother Pepper had inherited from her father. While the other ten Peppers sat gloomily thinking of their misfortunes, Son Donald slipped quietly out of the house. Few minutes later he burst back, shouting that there were heaps of the stuff on the beach just opposite the tearoom. The whole family rushed out, scooped...
...stroll on Bolinas Beach, north of the Golden Gate, one afternoon last fortnight went Alf Harrodon, 33-year-old radio operator. Striding along with head in air he stumbled on something soft. Looking down, he saw a large mass of greyish stuff, mottled and opaque. In his hands it felt and smelled like limburger cheese...
...bowels of a sick sperm whale, ends as a base for precious perfumes. But he had been raised on the coast of Norway and like coast children throughout the world had been taught to keep his eyes peeled for it. With shaking hands he scooped up the cheesy stuff, 60 lb. of it, and carried it home. Next day he got a schoolboy friend to take a sample to his chemistry laboratory. That night the boy came back to report that the sample had assayed 70% ambergris. Ambergris, he had heard, was worth $26 an oz. His find would bring...
...hopes of 35 eager-eyed people who brought him soap, potatoes, sponges, sewage, a dead rat. Nor was he optimistic about the ones who had found what seemed to be ambergris. First, he warned, he had tested only a sample. It was by no means sure that all the stuff was ambergris. Even if it were, there might be no ready market for so much of it. Used to "fix" the odors of other substances, only minute quantities of ambergris are needed by perfume makers. Lately synthetic substitutes have been developed. Said Chemist Smith: "There is potential tragedy in this...
...nicely and in which the promoters have been content with a comparatively small amount of graft, then Charlie for one is not going to have any relations with that government. It will simply have to get along without him as best it can; for he is made of sterner stuff than most men and his principles mean something to him. And if some sceptics wonder rather audibly just what the hell they do mean to him, he can always point to his spotless moral life, and to the comparative poverty in which he lives as incontrovertible evidence of the rigid...