Word: grafts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Among the Pulitzer prizes awarded annually is one of $1,000 for the "best reportorial work of the year"-the tests being accuracy, terseness and " the accomplishment of some public good." The prizes were recently awarded for 1922. The " best reporter," however, did not expose a great graft ring, did not describe a great national catastrophe, did not report a momentous political event, made no great " scoop." What he reported was a convention of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Cambridge, Mass, (last December). The man was Alva Johnston, then with The New York Times, now with...
...Blanc fainted when the order was read to him and again on reaching his residence; he is now suffering from a paralytic stroke. His dismissal follows the exile from the municipality of Mme. Chinon, famous adventuress, " Madame Pompadour of Monaco." It is the outcome of some remarkable revelations of graft unearthed by special auditors appointed by the Prince. Recently Prince Louis discovered that the Principality had been defrauded of more than...
...article in the Crimson is worth anything at all, it ought to come out flat-footed and say what it means. If it means graft, then it ought to be easy to show it or keep still. If it means to cut the privileged classes, who will it cut and how many? Let the CRIMSON show us how many tickets it can save by its change of system. It has only got to save 5000 right now, and it won't save that many if it cuts out entirely the Corporation, the Board of Overseers, the Old Players...
...after a play has failed. He feels called upon to resist an implied attack on the Graduate Treasurer and remarks that, "we can safely trust even his snap guesses in preference to other people's well-laid plans." The writer reads into the CRIMSON's recent editorial insinuations of "graft" and concludes by putting a chip on the shoulder of the Athletic Association with a distinct invitation to the CRIMSON to knock...
...stands to see points which are lost in the close-up view from the side-lines. It was in this spirit that the CRIMSON, realizing the difficulties which the Athletic Association has to face, criticized the present method of allotting tickets. There was no suggestion of any of the "graft" which the author of the communication likes to dwell upon, and the reference to "privileged classes" in the editorial was to the seven groups listed under that head in the Athletic Association's statement of last November...