Word: clarion
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...Convention Week for the gazette & clarion men. Unlike other convention groups, they did not backslap. That was their distinguishing sign as they swarmed through the lobbies and corridors of the Waldorf-Astoria, Manhattan hotel, during the annual sessions of the American Newspaper Publishers' Association and the Associated Press...
Today is the first of the great spring Saturdays that sound the clarion call to all the University. It summons a hundred Harvard athletes to court field, or river, and it is safe to say that five thousand Harvard non-combatants are called to the stands and the river-bank, or at least to the late night extras and the Sunday sporting pages...
...Antioch College from 1907 to 1917. He rustles about in the Senate like a professor in an examination room, reminding heated debaters of the Senate rules, whispering concise answers and directions to his colleagues in the cloakroom. To have such a man sound the party's first clarion would be, thought one hasty commentator, "like having a clerk address the stockholders...
Everyone has seen the self-advertisements of newspapers which read something like this: "Bugle-Clarion led all Creamtown newspapers for February in gain in creampuff advertising." Other Creamtown papers would, meanwhile, be advertising that they led in something else. But prouder still is the paper whose grand total exceeds all others. Last week Editor & Publisher announced total agate lines of advertising for U. S. newspapers in 1927. The ten leaders (all but the last being published seven days per week...
There's a clarion sound of music...