Word: stuffs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with a number of the boys downstairs being neighborly . . . When the conversation turned to religion, the House Wise Guy was all set. Adjusting his horn-rimmed spectacles and propping his white bucks on the table, he opened his mouth and said: 'Now let's get this religion stuff straight once and for all-especially this Christianity that some of you fellows seem to be worrying about a little more lately...
Ross distrusted most of those who wrote for The New Yorker, says Thurber. "He nursed an editorial phobia about what he called the functional: 'bathroom and bedroom stuff.' Years later he deleted from a Janet Planner 'London Letter' a forthright explanation of the nonliquid diet imposed upon the royal family and dignitaries during the coronation of George VI. 'So-and-so can't write a story without a man in it carrying a woman to bed,' he wailed. And again, 'I'll never print another [John] O'Hara story...
...whole "novel" should have been released slowly through quarterlies. In small doses, the stuff might still be good for a few kicks when you've run out of juice. Too much is too much, man, no matter what brand you're drinking. There's a difference between having IT and being sick...
...Soviet Sputnik more clearly last week than U.S. toymakers, who lost no time blasting off on an 18,000-m.p.h. orbit all their own. Looking ahead to Christmas, the toymen were already well-stocked with an arsenal of celestial hardware. They quickly launched a crash program to unwrap the stuff. "The second I heard about the Russian satellite," said one somber-voiced toyman, "I knew we had to move fast...
...Farce, like souffle, can't be warmed over. Back in 1936, when this piece of fluff came hot from Hollywood, it was crisp and light with the most expensive ingredients (William Powell and Carole Lombard). But a couple of decades have somehow taken the puff out of the stuff. At second serving it looks, as the French say of second servings, a little senile...