Word: criers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...eight black-robed figures sank down with gloomy dignity behind the long bench. Duplicates in wrinkled old flesh of the classic busts of their predecessors niched in the walls around them, the eight fine faces peered out through the shadows of the courtroom. Then the crier, in sharply pressed cutaway, rapped his gavel once and announced: "Oyez, oyez, oyez! All persons having business before the Honorable, the Supreme Court of the United States, are admonished to draw near and give their attention, for the Court is now sitting. God save the United States and this honorable Court...
...Chamber's president under Herbert Clark Hoover. Silas Hardy Strawn, a stout Republican pillar, spoke on security regulation, a subject which ranked a close second to NRA as the Chamber's chief interest. The hard-bitten Chicago lawyer refused to admit that he was a Roosevelt wolf-crier but his speech was shot with such phrases as "hysterical legislation . . . unbearable if not confiscatory taxes . . . lack of confidence, the greatest menace to the revival of normal business...
...Oyez, Oyez, Oyez!" shouted the Common Crier. "All ye who are not of the Livery depart this hall on pain of imprisonment...
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Every self-disrespecting U. S. city has a tattle magazine. Usually it is ambiguously guised as a compendium of smartset goings-on. In Philadelphia it is the Town Crier; in Boston the Bostonian. Indiscreet St. Louis socialites dread the Censor; incautious Kansas citizens the Independent. But the happy hunting grounds of the gossip-magazine publisher are Manhattan and Washington. With the announcement: last week that the Club Fellow & Washington Mirror had been bought by the owners of the Taller & American Sketch, it became apparent that Windsor Publishing Corp. had its field almost completely in control. Only the 52-year...