Word: expression
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...your April 12 issue, p. 14, you tell about an "infuscate U. S. sailor." Now is that a sneer or not? It seems a funny way to express that the sailor was drunk. I think you ought to respect the U. S. Navy and not use a sneer. "Tight," or "squiffed," or "boiled" or maybe "groggy" would have meant the same and not sounded so sneering...
...genius, in the word's jargon connotation. Something was denied his hand. He left his illustrations for the Century Magazine far behind, but he could never express himself perfectly. A certain crabbedness entered his nature through his sense of frustration. On a small scale he had the Michelangelic misanthropy. He said of his teacher, Duveneck "He liked me?which most people...
...gathering had also to referee the second round of a bitter fight between powerful Publisher Hearst and spunky Publisher Frank E. Gannett of Rochester, N. Y. The latter's newspaper, the Times-Union, competes most successfully with the Hearstian Rochester Journal and Post-Express. Knowing that he could serve his readers better and compete still more successfully, Publisher Gannett sought, two years ago, to enroll his Times-Union in the Associated Press and bring into its columns the swift, unmuddied current of news that the A. P. pumps from all parts of the U. S. and the rest...
...biggest, the central town criers' gathering, was that of the American Newspaper Publishers' Association. They met in the big Waldorf ballroom and reporters stood at the door jotting down, together with the great names of U. S. newspaperdom, other publishing names variously distinguished: J. W. Green of the Buffalo Express, who claimed he had attended more A. N. P. A. conventions than any other man alive (the reporter failed to note the record number); Zell Hart Deming of the Warren, Ohio, Tribune-Chronicle, "only publisher in the U. S. who does her own fruitcanning"; the ample Frank Rostock, who gripped...
...deference to my friend, Ada May, I shall not express my opinion or my views concerning the Charleston...