Word: stuffs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sure, lingery. You know, the stuff they wear for underwear. Just think - the cotton surplus would be eaten up pretty quick, wouldn...
...Blennerhassett to make a yo-yo perform for his children. He began with "deprecatory condescension. . . . The yo-yo was recalcitrant. . . . First it would and then it wouldn't. But the Blennerhassett blood was up. He was determined to make the little devil on a string do its stuff...
...poetry he says "I know how this stuff came into existence . . . and if I were obliged, not to define poetry, but to name the class of things to which it belongs, I should call it a secretion; whether a natural secretion, like turpentine in the fir, or a morbid secretion, like the pearl in the oyster. I think that my own case, though I may not deal with the material so cleverly as the oyster does, is the latter; because I have seldom written poetry unless I was rather out of health, and the experience, though pleasurable, was generally agitating...
...greyhound racing. John Buchan is famed in Great Britain and well-known in the U. S. for his adventurous, Kiplingesque historical novels (Greenmantle, Witch Wood, The Blanket of the Dark, etc. etc.). British schoolboys read them and are given a Buchan history of the World War-sound, patriotic, safe stuff. For 25 years John Buchan has been an elder in a Scottish church in London. When informed of his appointment as Lord High Commissioner he said: "I am going to be a dour Presbyterian...
Against the German Nazi racket across the border. Austria's little Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss last week stoutly turned his bottle-shaped back, tried to stuff his ears. A special Hitler propagandist had come to Austria: Bavarian Minister of Justice Hans Frank, with two colleagues. When the three stepped from their plane last fortnight on a Vienna landing field, a police official told them they were "not very desirable." Nevertheless, Dollfuss permitted them to speak non-politically to 30,000 Austrian Nazis at a celebration of the 250th anniversary of the delivery of Vienna from the Turks.* The audience soon...