Word: dialing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...contribute to newspaper columns are very free with their signatures. Some make free with great names, sign themselves "Napoleon," "George Washington," "Calvin Coolidge." Others make free to be funny and call themselves names like Oscar Zilch, Wilton F. Cassowary, Ivan Offalitch. Conductor Harry Irving Phillips of the "Sun Dial" in the New York Evening Sun, did not think one way or another about the signature attached to some contributed verses he printed in early April, entitled "To a wife about to start on a shopping tour." The last stanza read: So when you dare declare to me You will...
LITTLE CAESAR?W. R. Burnett?Dial...
...past few months, are now put between the covers of a novel, and furnish such good entertainment, apparently, that they are the selection of the Literary Guild for their readers in the month of June. "Little Caesar", the first novel of W. R. Burnett, published by the Dial Press, is the new Baedeker to gangland, drawing chiefly on the shady side of the night clubs for its material...
Assistant Editress Ellen Thayer, cousin of Adviser Thayer, denied a report that he had tired of paying Dial deficits. "We have an advertising manager who gets advertisements each month. We're not a charity organization, you know," she said...
...When the Dial first was issued in Chicago, in 1880, it appeared fortnightly under the editorship of one Francis F. Browne. Its book reviews covered many pages, went into great detail concerning novels and their authors, even commenting on typographical errors. In 1918 it moved to Manhattan with Robert Morss Lovett as editor. Then its letters were exchanged for issues, its policies became freedom of speech, release of political prisoners. In 1920 under the leadership of Adviser Thayer, it became a monthly with a program devoted to esoteric odds and ends, good printing, and giving a chance to rare...