Word: blurb
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Your statement as to the editorial in the Atlanta Journal is unbelievable as it is beyond my imagination to visualize an editor so rash as to publish an advertising "Blurb" in his editorials. The same paraphrase has been appearing in some of the small local papers of this vicinity for some months past and as a paid advertisement of the Pinkham Co. I might also say that it has appeared in the joke department of the Journal...
...Harvard University. Nor is there any reason for a quick choice. Mr. Lowell is still President of Harvard, and until his term is at an end he will so continue. In the meantime the university grows and prospers, not alone financially but intellectually and spiritually, all section men land blurb writers to the contrary not withstanding
...anti-blurb publishing house...
...Cherokee, Iowa, where he used to teach high school and coach a championship football team, David Wallace Stewart, recently nominated by Republicans and appointed by Governor Hammill to fill the unexpired term of the late Senator Cummins (TIME, Aug. 9, THE CONGRESS), made his first political blurb at an annual homecoming. He "deplored sectionalism and provincialism"; he said, "I shall fight with all the power that I have to advance, protect and maintain the best interests of the state of Iowa." (Cheers...
...thing for the party's Presidential nominee." In Raleigh, N. C., a semi-bald, placid, likeable newspaper editor amuses himself and satisfies his readers. He is Josephus Daniels, Democrat, War-time Secretary of the Navy. Last week he became orator once again. Exasperated with hearing farm bloc blurb, he told the Annual Farmers' Convention at North Carolina State College to "awake out of their sleep and go into politics redheaded. . . . There never was a time when farmers had such negligible influence in government as now." And Editor Daniels was never ironic. The rancor of feuds has wiped...