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Word: stuffs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Never drink a drop myself; the stuff is no good, but the public is still paying $.50 and $.75 a drink so I should care. And why should I be ashamed of myself? My business is illegal, but you don't want to get the idea that it's unethical. I had a customer, he owes me $300 now, came around the other day, told me he was in a bad way, so I gave him a hundred to tide him over for a month...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Boston Speakeasy Proprietor Denounces Return of Beer and Prophesies Saloons and Unemployment When Repeal Comes | 8/1/1933 | See Source »

Meanwhile zealous Storm Troopers were flaunting such amazing slogans as "Christ was the first anti-Semite!" and "Down with baptized Jews who have become Protestant pastors!" Such stuff of course meant nothing except that the Nazis were resolved to win the ballot battle. Up for election were candidates to fill some 400,000 posts as German church elders and board members. All over the Fatherland Nazi intimidation tactics worked. In Munich, Nuremberg and scores of lesser cities the von Bodelschwingh opposition crumpled up completely, agreed to support "fusion lists" of candidates, each packed with a thumping majority of Nazi "German...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Miracle! | 7/31/1933 | See Source »

...fortnightly. It will be printed in rotogravure with the old masthead. There will be a comic strip narrating the life of a chorus girl named "Flossie Flip" and a Broadway colyum. Besides sport news, it will contain, in Editrix Hersey's carefully chosen words: "Lots of sex, underworld stuff with a sex angle, and plenty of pictures of semi-nude nightclub girls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Barber's Bible | 7/31/1933 | See Source »

...fortnightly. It will be printed in rotogravure with the old masthead. There will be a comic strip narrating the life of a chorus girl named "Flossie Flip" and a Broadway colyum. Besides sport news, it will contain, in Editrix Hersey's carefully chosen words: "Lots of sex, underworld stuff with a sex angle, and plenty of pictures of semi-nude nightclub girls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Barber's Bible | 7/31/1933 | See Source »

...Hasty pudding in the diet should be noted. For more than 200 years the staple food here, this pudding is now remembered only in the name of the largest and second oldest club (1790). It probably needed no doctoring to make it disagreeable as it was pretty meagre stuff anyway...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRIME | 7/18/1933 | See Source »

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