Word: gist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...absent-minded professor playing "anagrams with alphabet soup.'' Such advertising, however, helped to run the New Outlook's circulation up from 85,000 to 200,000. Last week, for the first time since he joined the New Outlook, Al Smith made news of another sort. Gist of the news was contained in two letters: "Dear Frank: It is with great regret that I tender you my resignation as editor-in-chief of the New Outlook. . . . My business interests take all of my time.* . . I enjoyed working with you. . . . With best wishes. . . . Alfred E. Smith." "My Dear Governor...
...always been one of our secret ambitions to cozen one of those impeccably smug young men who glide around examination halls, dealing out bluebooks, and making noisome speeches. But it appears that someone beat us to it. There was, it appears, a wager between two amiable fellows, the gist of which was that proctors were or were not worth their salt. And the upshot was that the more intelligent of the two had to prove his point...
Pondering these facts, jovian Editor Morris Fishbein of the Journal of the American Medical Association last week was moved to wrath. At two phrases which lately began appearing on the wrappers of Smith Brothers' cough drops and cough syrup he cast a three-column edi torial bolt, gist of which lay in two words. Smith Brothers' phrases were: "Contains Primary VITAMIN A. THE 'ANTI-INFECTIVE' VITAMIN." Editor Fishbein's two words: "meretricious quackery...
Chief subjects of critical inquiry and the gist of Morgan & Co.'s answers...
Last February the House voted five articles of impeachment against Judge Louderback (TIME. March 6). Their gist was that he had abused his judicial power in receivership cases, had been guilty of "tyranny and oppression, favoritism and conspiracy which brought the administration of justice into disrepute.'' Original complainant against Judge Louderback, who was appointed in 1928 by President Coolidge on the say-so of then Senator Samuel Shortridge, was the San Francisco Bar Association. He was accused of appointing Lawyer Samuel Shortridge Jr. to at least one fat receivership, dismissing a receiver who refused to appoint...