Word: detailing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...corner with his scrawny shoulders hunched, his lean hooked nose thrust into a book. Mr. Silberstein, a tailor, and his wife, would listen in awe to their son's condescending accounts of long arguments with Mr. Calisch. They looked at one another anxiously when Emanuel devoured every published detail of the murder of a small Jewish boy, Bobbie Franks, by two intellectual, older Jewish boys, Leopold and Loeb, in Chicago...
...supporters in the now defunct revolution paid in haste fines imposed by Dictator Primo de Rivera, considered themselves lucky that no worse befell them. General Weyler, relying on his prestige with the Spanish army, curtly refused to pay his fine. Promptly Dictator Primo, not easily balked, sent a detail of police to seize the amount of the fine from General Weyler's bank...
...must do what he can do best. Furthermore, there is that enveloping quality about Author Benefield's troubled situations that reaches far beyond the particular persons and scenes to include all men's troubles, of all kinds. Finally, there is gentle, whimsical accuracy of detail, in few words-how little mules trot; an Italian undertaker "ostentatiously piddling through his ornate futilities"; an executive's comfort in his row of pearl-topped desk buttons; a kitty named John the Baptist...
Washington, D. C. Sirs: Please do not let a subscriber's momentary irritation deprive us of these footnotes. Valuable-why ? . . . They are like the final strokes in a painting-to clear up detail here and there. Please let us have them. ALICE B. NICHOLS...
...that "flat flappers" are not desirable, that dieting is therefore foolish. Voluptuous, well-fleshed women are preferable, the article tried to say. More or less appropriately, poses by Marjorie Rambeau, Lenore Ulric, Gertrude Ederle, Ethel Barrymore, Helen Wills were printed to illustrate the point. The interesting thing was a detail which used to be unusual for a Hearst paper. However vulgar his aims and practices, Publisher Hearst never used to be accused, even by his most nauseated critics, of hiring writers ignorant of the English language. Yet in this article some Hearstling had committed a ludicrous blunder. The headline read...