Word: ahem
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Critic's Teeth. Liebling has decided prejudices of his own. "The Sun" he says, "is a suburban paper published "on the island of Manhattan . . . as perfectly preserved as the corpse of Lenin." Liebling's impression of Pundit Walter Lippmann: "Nowtherefore and whereas and ahem." PM's Max Lerner writes editorials "like an elephant treading the dead body of a mouse into the floor of its cage." Liebling often rags the Chicago Tribune and Bertie McCormick, but wonders if it "isn't like punching the heavy bag. The Colonel is in the direct line of Dickens...
...Last week [TIME, July 30], in "A Letter from the Publisher," TIME was boasting that you keep a reserve of portraits of "49 probable future newsmakers." Ahem. Did you not expect Clement Attlee to become British Prime Minister...
Victory or no, the fiendish Freshman wanted to add insult to injury. So, strictly from nonconformity, he donned a pair of shorts. His barelegged strides may have brought ohs and ahs from the Radcliffe girls but the only noticeable Yard Cop comment was "ahem!" plus a quick nab for "indecent exposure." So it was defeat again, but the little man still has a few more tricks up, his sleeve, just you wait...
...advantages of being a member of "Cambridge's only breakfast table daily, serving the public 24 hours a day," are manifold. As a News candidate, you will find out what makes the University tick and will gain entrance to places ordinarily barred--ahem--from the student proletariat...