Word: brooklyn
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...circle or utilize the mystical phases of the moon. "Magic" was used in its popular, journalistic sense in naming the new section. And a popular, highly successful journalistic departure the new section promised to be. It reminded readers of the "find-the-face" picture puzzles once run by the Brooklyn Daily Eagle, expanded, colored up, bigger and better in every way. There was the letter puzzle which come:; out: "Wise you are, wise you be. I see you are too wise for mo." There was the well-known optical illusion of the elephant swallowing a peanut. There was a well...
...Brooklyn is aggrieved. News stories of murders, bank robberies and transit line accidents in that city are sent out under New York date lines, robbing Brooklyn of its just share or notoriety. But Mr. H. E. Bullis of the Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce is aroused to the peril in which the fair name of Brooklyn stands, and he is leading a crusade to "put Brooklyn back into the news...
...York, it would seem that city would be more than willing to pass on to other places news items which do not reflect creditably on itself, but it is not so. New York has a singular and inordinate appetite for self-advertising, preferably of an unfavorable sort, and evidently Brooklyn has become infected with the virus. The city of Walt Whitman and Henry Ward Beecher, not content with being known as the terminus of the subway, wants its own little murders duly credited to Brooklyn. A journalistic plot to make Brooklyn into an obscure hamlet of two and one half...
Tired of having her crimes and achievements sent out under New York date lines, the aroused citizens of Brooklyn will doubtless be inspired to commit more bizarre crimes, bring about more remarkable achievements, until New York grows quite insignificant in the news. The ultimate end, although it is now scarcely whispered, is complete annihilation of New York, and incorporation of the remnants into a Bigger and Better Brooklyn...
...Roebling, '71. W. A. was chief engineer for the construction of the Brooklyn Bridge. Their firm supplied the cables for the Williamsburg Bridge, "longest suspension structure ever erected...