Word: criers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Manhattan dramatic critics Crier Woollcott was once the most conspicuous if not the most famed. A certain peculiarity of gait and of voice marked him as he minced in lobbies between acts, shrilly giving his views...
...writing for the New Yorker, Manhattan sophistisheet, Mr. Woollcott also speaks over radio station WOR, calling himself the "Town Crier...
Last week in a voice that quivered from excitement, Crier Woollcott told his hearers that he had ''a news beat." He told that General John Joseph Pershing, visiting Financier Bernard Mannes Baruch on his Scotland estate, had gone grouse shooting. This in itself was not news; generals are expected to like to pull triggers now and then. The news was that General Pershing had been so careless as to hit in the face Supreme Court Justice Richard Paul Lydon instead of a grouse...
Confronted by these statements, Crier Woollcott did not seem to care that reputation was at stake. Petulantly he rasped : "It happened. I should not have told the story, except that I think anyone who shoots at birds, even though he's a general, ought to be told...
Again General Pershing was queried. This time he seemed not so sure. "Why should I be obliged to say . . ." said he. It appeared that Crier Woollcott, his reputation safe, deserved no ducking...