Word: gentlemanly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Periodically reprinting the Constitution and leading sermons preached east of the Mississippi, the Transcript specialized in nostalgic essays. But editorially the Transcript was not always a gentleman. Foe of book and stage censorship, in a city holding the record for censorship, the Transcript fought Prohibition, reported the Thaw case in "blunt, ugly words which pseudo-fastidious contemporaries mincingly blue-penciled." Famed for his acid if polished gusto was the Transcript's music and drama critic, the late H. T. ("Hell-to-Pay") Parker. But it was rumored that he wrote his first drafts in Latin...
...Atlanta Journal's Washington correspondent, Ralph Smith, is a quiet, iron-grey, genial Southern gentleman who manages to cover the news without ever seeming to hurry. Newsman Smith, uniformly good-humored (unless someone clapper-claws his idol, Georgia's Senator Walter George), is not given to hysteria. But last week House clerks told him that the Seventy-Seventh Congress, in its first 100 days, had voted appropriations totaling $16,091,543,000. For his readers' benefit, he spelled it out: "sixteen billion, ninety-one million, five hundred and forty-three thousand dollars." Newshawk Smith then went...
Beating around and through the bush of recent labor-management scuffles, critics had flushed out a scapenannygoat, the Labor Secretary. Congressmen bayed on her trail. Washington wags cracked: the only reason she still holds office is that the President is too much of a gentleman to ask a lady for her seat...
...Coles H. Phinizy '42 announced that his am would take an uncompromising stand in favor of Marx. "We prefer Groucho's teachings to Karl's," he said wittily. "We're going to demand a survey course called Elements of Humour A in which a good pun would guarantee a gentleman witster's C in the final exam. We also want a graduate seminar, Pornography...
...like to recall its stand behind the old Whig party, its Civil War crusade against slavery, its one-family hereditary editorship through Victorian times, and its ultra-conservative woman editor. Nor will Beacon Hill ever live down the day a Brahmin butler announced to madame "three reporters, and a gentleman from the Transcript...