Word: covered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...entertaining and understandable from cover to cover. ("We cannot promise you George Bernard Shaw every week but we do promise you a group of contributors who have mastered not only music but the English language and an editorial staff that knows how to make a magazine look interesting as well...
Bookman. Formerly owned by George H. Doran's publishing firm, the Bookman was what is known in the trade as a house organ. It was recently purchased by private capital for Burton Rascoe, editor. The new magazine has a gay cafe au lait cover. Inspection of its con- tents, leads critics to suspect that (like Harper's, the Atlantic Monthly, etc.) the Bookman is feeling the sharp spur of the American Mercury in the sluggish sides of thoughtful periodical publishing in the U. S. Among the articles is one by John Farrar, whose editorship (starting in 1921) brought the Bookman...
...Mackay Companies in command of transpacific communications, and may put to naught Western Union's contemplated permalloy cable. Mackay Companies, through Commercial Pacific Cable Co., owns the only present transpacific cable. This cable operates between the U. S., Hawaii, the Philippines and China. Mackay Companies, further, covers the U. S. with Postal Telegraph, although to a less thorough extent than does Western Union. † It has arrangements for transmission of telegrams with Canadian Pacific Telegraphs which cover Canada; for its transatlantic cable it has traffic arrangement with Radio Corporation of America (which on the Pacific Coast co- operates with...
Your correspondent in Milwaukee, John Muller, who praised you for not printing Lindbergh's picture on the front cover and who prophesied so blithely that one or more Junkers' planes will come gliding into New York with no fuss or fiddling, must now feel like the blatant tactless ass that he gives every appearance of being...
...Significance. Nowadays it takes a mental eye of high velocity detail, the myriad activities of knowing young Manhattanites. There are so many things to do and everything is done so quickly. To cover the assignment with the thoroughness and mimetic accuracy (but not the rancor) of a Sinclair Lewis, and at the same time to create four central characters of breathless reality, and a Dickensian hurly-burly of minor characters, and to keep them moving through their swift social traffic under their own power and in their right positions, requires a highly developed social instinct and something akin to literary...