Word: criers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...devoted is the Supreme Court, let the decisions fall where they may. If, like a good Baptist, he kneels before he goes to bed at night to pray, it is highly probable that his daily prayers include the final line of the invocation with which his court crier opens every session: "Oyez, Oyez, Oyez. . . . God save the United States and this Honorable Court." There is doubtless a twinkle in his eye as he says it nowadays, for he is a statesman as well as a jurist and there is ample evidence that his mood today is not one of impotent...
...King's Proctor. The Ipswich assizes open this week but those at Norwich opened last week, with Sir John presenting his traditional spectacle of royal pomp. Up he walked with the Mayor, local judges and members of the Norwich Corporation, all in full robes, as the Town Crier intoned, "Make way! Make way for God's and the King's Judge! Make way!" Sir John Hawke was in scarlet robe with imposing ermine collar and full powdered wig, the conventional embodiment of British Jus tice. He said a loud prayer for wisdom and righteousness as he will...
...were loaded with honey and the ghosts of the bees that made it stung the crew to death? What if the silk worms, roses, bees went on strike? What if Manhattan's pigeons were all killed? Miss Crane is fond of alliteration's artful aid: "Clerk and crier quaffed the quiet of the quarry." When she feels like it, she can rhyme "thorn" with "faun," play hob with King's College English. Readers who like lilt will find plenty of it, in the great tradition of Robert W. Service and Edgar A. Guest...
...dramacritic of Manhattan, he had become a sort of glorified gossip columnist, a genteel Walter Winchell, and a peevish prophet of arts & letters. Few men can tell a story as entertainingly as Alexander Woollcott, and few would dare to be as malicious. As Cream of Wheat's "Town Crier" on the radio, he received more "high class" fan mail than any other single entertainer on the Columbia network. Sales of his book, While Rome Burns, approached 90,000. Like bumboat boys diving for pennies, book publishers scrambled for Woollcott words of praise for a new work, to splash...
...Town Crier Woollcott lives in the same apartment house as the Ralph Pulitzers and Alice Duer Miller at the foot of East 52nd Street, overlooking the East River. Dorothy Parker named the place "Wit's End." He lives in Sybaritic ease, attended by a youthful Negro servant named Junior. When he writes at home, he customarily dictates to a male secretary. Breakfast or cocktail guests are likely to include the Ben Hechts, Charles MacArthurs, Neysa McMein, Harpo Marx, Noel Coward, Herbert Bayard Swope. With Editor Harold Ross he maintains a perpetual Potash & Perlmutter squabble, which last week came...