Word: assailing
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...Flay" Denounced. "If there is any gratitude in the newspaper profession for the interest we are taking in their work, I wish that they would assassinate the terms rap, assail, attack and flay from news stories and headlines. Every newspaper I read is guilty of the use of these overused words, and I would even suggest the award of a Pulitzer prize for the newspaper man who devises substitutes for these pugnacious words" - Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, President of Columbia University...
...Tribune in which was marked an editorial attack upon the ardent young free-trade professor: "Men who are really able are not often inclined to substitute insolence for argument, "? They recall his reply: "The protectionists get lachrymose. . . . They sigh to think that young men are growing up who assail political saints and economic quacks...
...stands outside my window now and makes life miserable for me and doubtless for himself with a steam rivetter. She works harder. The period when a novel is being written, for a writer with an artistic conscience, is apparently one of the most difficult things imaginable. Doubts assail, characters will not behave, words will not marshal themselves in neat array. It is my belief that, when an author gets over this pain of production, his product becomes dull and profitless. After six years of newspaper work?years which Miss Ferber places ahead of any university courses she might have had?...
...economy. After that I am for more economy." In proposing to the Government's Business Organization (Budget) that the nation be run on $3,000,000,000 in 1925, Mr. Coolidge thus keynoted, indirectly, his campaign for reëlection. Especially did he assail the national payroll, extravagance in government printing...
...long article headed "American College Youth Repudiates Butler's Wet Views." All this occurred in the days following Dr. Butler's original remarks. But May dragged into June and The Monitor still continued its attacks on Dr. Butler. "Texas Repudiates Dr. Butlers View," "Governor and College Head Assail Dr. Butler's Position," "Tulsa Citizens Repudiate Dr. Butler's Wet Stan'd." The editor of The Monitor may well have written "Butler, Butler," all over his desk pad for 1924-lest he forget, lest he forget...