Word: circularity
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...Nimes's playhouse, built in 1798, is billed as "the oldest theater of its kind" with no attempt to define its kind; Eva's protégé was her favorite nephew. The theater and José were brought together last June when Eva sent a circular letter to every opera manager in France, proclaiming José's brilliance and immediate availability as a tenor. Francis Lenzi, Nimes's entrepreneur, took a chance and wrote back offering Jose a job in the chorus...
This prosperity was almost too good to last. Chicago had scores of policy "wheels" -the circular devices from which winning numbers are drawn. Each "wheel" was named-there was the Erie-Buffalo-Goldfield Wheel, the B & O, the Windy City-Subway-Big Town. Each was served by hundreds of runners and had thousands of loyal customers. Each was a gold mine. The Capone Syndicate set out to consolidate them into one big gold mine...
...when it was floundering with a circulation of only 84,000, built it up until it rivals the London Times in prestige, dwarfs it in circulation (970,900 v. 233,091). Sharply edited and crisply written, the Telegraph is as free of sex and sensation as the court circular, shows Camrose's liking for the unadorned fact. The Telegraph is not given to causes or crusades; it is staunchly but independently Conservative, whereas the Times in the past has supported the government even when it promoted socialism and appeasement...
...Once back home, however, the Utah delegation was re-corralled by Taftmen, who soon announced that all 14 members were committed to support Taft as long as the Senator had any chance for the nomination. Next day, talking with Oregon delegates, Ike lapsed into one of those circular pronouncements which may seem profound when first heard, and turn out on closer examination to be gibberish. The pronouncement: "You are never going to cut this budget markedly until you get a program of peace working in the world, which comes in two stages. The first you might call a real truce...
...reply to an Exposition ad brings a circular that reminds the writer: "Until you are a published author, you will never be regarded as an author." It points out, quite rightly, that ordinary publishers are looking only for sure things, that an unknown beginner has a slim chance. Besides, the vanity author joins the select list of great writers "who had enough faith in their own work to subsidize its publication," e.g., Thomas Hardy, A. E. Housman, John Masefield, Edwin Arlington Robinson, Edgar Rice Burroughs. (The predominance of poets in the list of examples is no accident; 35% of Exposition...