Word: gamins
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Having recovered from my conflict with the Nordie on the steps of Fogg. I was next approached by a little gamin by the name of Joe Forecast Jr., who apparently is a denizen of Plympton Street...
...ever having been printed on yellow paper. The origin of the opprobious "yellow journalism" came about through a "comic" drawn by R. F. Outcault, called "The Yellow Kid." This appeared first in the World; scored such a hit that Hearst bought Outcault away from Pulitzer. It depicted a street gamin who wore a yellow night shirt, on which was inscribed all the gutter chatter and slang of that day, and it was out of that incident that the term "yellow journalism" was coined...
Wrote the next day famed Editor & Cinema Critic Mario Carli in Rome's Impero: "Perhaps past conditions approached those shown . . . but in Mussolini's Italy certainly nothing of that nature exists. Gypsies, underworld characters, prostitution, cheating, misery, vice, overdressed peasants, gamin life, people in rags, filthiness, superstition, thuggery, human landscapes immersed in endless fog-even the classic sun of Italy was obliterated by the Fox directors. Can you imagine an Italian seascape perpetually steeped...
...dispensed with formalities. They gave Mrs. Walker some flowers, observed her strong white teeth when she smiled, her stylish stoutness when she walked, watched the unusual grinning couple enter a motor. They decided that Mr. Walker meant what he said about his plans being "indefinite." How could such a gamin be definite? They welcomed him as "Mayor of the greatest American capital," but, as he said later: "How in Hell can one be dignified in these surroundings...