Word: blurb
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Seldom is a publisher's "blurb" anything more than a mere blurb--a kind of mixture of a botch and a burble. but in the case of "After Disillusion" we have before us something different. The "blurber" here displays" considerable thought and considerable analytic power, and we congratulate Mr. Selwyn on his staff...
...blurb says: "This newspaper will picture local, national and international news and events by actual photographs. Other features: United News despatches, leased wire coast despatches, household and fashion pages, sports and children's pages, harbor and shipping news and an unrivaled comic section. . . . Clean, fearless and independent. Cornelius Vanderbilt, Jr., Editor and Publisher...
Ralph Morehouse had a trying part as a detective. We suppose it should be blamed on Mr. Cohan; but still, the blurb of the detective which lets the audience, and the actors, know how much he loves humanity seems terribly over-done. It is a trifle sickening for a two-fisted, hardboiled, graft-hunting. Irish detective to fall without warning to the estate of fond "deus ex." Mr. Morehouse would have had it over sooner if he had known his part better. But the prompter's voice can rarely be entirely dispensed with on stock company's first nights...
...welcome another sport to their numbers. Doubleday Page and Co. announced the publication of A Pocket Bridge Book ($1.00) by Walter Camp, under whose outstretched arm the health of the nation is upbuilded. " You can't be a 'dub' if you read this book," guarantees the blurb. "Mr. Camp is an expert...
...Said the blurb of the new weekly: "Its views on political, social, religious, economic and moral questions will be fearlessly expressed, without favor. . . . It will, briefly, aim to present an accurate and complete picture of this age in which we live. . . . Do you enthuse...