Word: argonauts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Henry Louis Mencken was speaking, nor Oswald Garrison Villard, but their local counterpart in San Francisco?Editor Edward Morphy of San Francisco's old conservative weekly Argonaut. Said he: "The Argonaut is opposed to blah and sobsister stuff. Blah seems to be the present standard of American newspapers." Also is the Argonaut opposed to Prohibition, reformers, the Klan, Radicals. It is for Capital Punishment; has small patience with labor unions; delights in baiting the bustle and flamboyance of Los Angeles...
...Argonaut, founded in 1877 by Frank Pixley and Fred Somers, enjoyed a bombastic heyday under their regime. Mark Twain, Bret Harte, Ambrose Bierce were early contributors. As editor from 1907 to 1924 the gifted Alfred Holman maintained a high standard of literary excellence. Though parts of the paper seem dull nowadays, San Franciscans point with pride to Editor Morphy's irascible editorials. He is well qualified to tell about the Big Wind in Ireland for he was born and educated there. Onetime gravedigger and longshoreman, he joined the Argonaut in 1925 with a background of 20 years vagabond-reporting...
...Argonaut (San Francisco...
...statement has "abandant all other athletic interests in order to urge the adoption of new sports, such as, pelota, kif-kif and the pengo. (Especially the latter.)" He possesses the original manuscript of Bishop Heber's famed hymn, "From Greenland's Icy Mountains." Other books: Argonaut and Juggernaut, Who Killed Cock Robin?, Discursions on Travel, Art and Life, Be fore the Bombardment...