Word: herex
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Herald & Examiner stepped up to him. "You want to see me?" asked Mayor Kelly. "Yes," replied the Hearstling. "Questions?" "Yes" Mayor Kelly turned on his heel, strode back into his office, shot over his shoulder: "There's no use your waiting around." The reporter departed. Next morning the Herex blazoned this headline across its front page...
...victim had a copy of the Mail in his possession. Lately Hearst's Chicago Herald & Examiner offered its readers smaller prizes under milder terms. Adult males detected by a roving reporter in acts of courtesy are awarded $2; boys, $1. If the man or boy is carrying a Herex when the Courtesy Reporter surprises him, the prize is doubled...
Fortnight ago the Herex Courtesy Reporter, in convivial mood, stepped to the microphone of Station KYW to report on Chicago manners. A legion of loudspeakers roared his words, which temporarily cost him his job: "I've been north and I've been south, an' east an' west, but I'll be damned if I can find a polite man with a Herald-Examiner...
...With customary reclame, last week Herex announced that Betty Sturgis Field, cousin of playwright Preston Sturgis, wife of Henry Field (archaeologist of the Field Museum, nephew of Capitalist Stanley Field), would henceforth conduct "The Social Whirl" for the paper...
...Herex: "Quoting and imitating Joe, who is dead and consequently unable to tell his own story, Mrs. Schultz gnashed her teeth, assumed a diabolical leer, and cried: 'Didn't I tell you if you ever went gadding to that saloon again I'd kill you?' That was what poor Joe is supposed to have told his misunderstood wife before she resorted to her little gun to correct his manners...