Word: fronts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...among its duties that of teaching the dailies their manners. And I am wondering if drama critics are to become corrupted by the plays they are paid to see. This is a word that might be spoken on the stage in so frank and veristic a production as The Front Page, but uttered at a decent dinner table it would impel a Victorian butler to practice on the loose-lipped guest what is technically known as the bum's rush...
William Preston Beazell, who became assistant managing editor when Swope was made executive editor of the World, remains at his desk in the front office Two resignations from the staff were announced, but neither was on account of the departure of Executive Editor Swope...
Each contestant was on a low small platform in front of a sleeping-tent. Spectators could stroll among the platforms and, if they chose, interrupt the contestants' squeaks and moans, their reading aloud, mumbling, gibbering, singing...
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...automobilist and a dum-fool was that the dumfool was prob'ly born that way and couldn't help it. Engineer Chrysler gave little thought to Oelwein's farmers and automobilists but he went to the Chicago automobile show of 1905* and stood entranced in front of a beauteous white thingamajig with four doors, a bulbous horn and red leather upholstery. It was the 1905 Locomobile. The salesman said it cost $5,000 cash. Mr. Chrysler had $700 in the bank at Oelwein. He borrowed $4,300 and shipped it home...