Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Performance. The action was merely suggested, never carried out. The actors sang in shrill, piercing falsetto voices, displaying incredible endurance. Most of the principals were relieved by their understudies before the evening was over?except the prima donna, who carried on until midnight. The stage manager came out occasionally and told the audience what all the action was about. a stage hand moved on and off with tables, chairs and other props, as the "scene" changed. The costumes were the last word in Eastern sumptuousness; they were said to cost $500 apiece. There was no scenery...
...could it be otherwise ? He regards his newspapers little differently, except as to size, from the merchandise that passes across the counters of his successful chain of grocery stores. To him, apparently, the newspaper differs in no essential respect from a can of peas in which the editors, writers and reporters are of as little significance as the individual pea in the can. . . . This . . . destroys individual initiative and enthusiasm and tends to transform his editorial writers into hired men who, within the narrow limits assigned to them and the still narrower limits inspired by their fear of making a mistake...
...remarks quoted in the public prints are exact reproductions of what has actually been said. Reportorial practice is to set down the gist of a speaker's words, couched in phraseology approximately but not actually his own, except for any memorable "purple patches," i. e., neat or colorful or specially emphasized word combinations. But "purple patches" are indeed preserved and different accounts of a given statement or interview usually tally very closely. If they do not, a variation indicates either bad reporting or the pressure of policy...
...Chicago Tribune . . . boasts that it is 'a commercial institution.' . . . Take that newspaper Herod, Mr. Frank A. Munsey. He regards his newspapers little differently, except as to size, from the merchandise that passes across the counters of his successful chain of grocery stores. In such an atmosphere. . . . the profession of journalism reaches the vanishing point...
...study of American farming is, however, strangely partial. It leaves out of all account what the farmer earned during 1915-1920, under very high prices for farm produce and reasonable labor and other costs. It omits all his profits from land speculation, except to charge their resultant losses against 1920-1922 earnings. Nor does it dwell upon present high prices for grain and cotton...