Word: blottered
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Snooty spectators may scorn the mechanical thunder of this Willard Mack truck, but they will probably be unable to do so until they are outside of the theatre. It is asserted that Theatreman Mack gathered his material directly from the blotter of a Canadian police court and it is also asserted, on poorer authority, that some of the incidents in his play will be discussed in a temple of justice far closer to Broadway. Said Burns Mantle, able critic to the N. Y. Daily News: "Hoist the warnings! Go tell Jimmie Sinnott, the mayor's censor!* The prostitutes...
President Harding completed his month's vacation in the South and returned to Washington to find his blotter covered with a mass of executive work. Nothing except matters of extremely pressing nature was brought to his attention during his vacation. A month's accumulation of business awaited him, and, on April 10, the first Cabinet meeting since March...
...deciphers the cartoons with wrapt attention and solemn mien. Next, he opens a magazine lying at hand and reads half a story. Wearying of that, he curses in a bored sort of way and turns back to the pencil which he has again broken while tracing designs on his blotter. Then he consults his watch and decides he can do nothing in the fifteen minutes that are left...