Word: ink
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...already in jail for participating in an unsuccessful revolution. From his cell he sent forth a manuscript whose seering verses he ordered printed in red ink. He called it Iras Santas (Sacred Furies). Peru was staggered by the sheer brutal power of this song of vengeance, this envenomed protest against civilization and its shams. José, bounding from his cell into the apogee of fame, became in his own words "the singer of America, a poet aboriginal and wild...
Regarding the pomposities of Busch of Madison, Wis. [TIME, June 7], couldn't it be arranged to get this hungry blood-lapping, Nietzschean blond super-beast out of his cage? Perhaps after a little outdoor exercise he would lose some of his zest for splashing ink unnecessarily...
Poet Vachel Lindsay, who has hymned many cities, played up the prosy aspect of "this Buffalo, this recreant town," to get a contrast for the "deathless glory" of nearby Niagara Falls. He reported "sharps and lawyers, prune and tame; Jew pioneers in Buffalo"; and journalists "sick of ink...
Buffalo has two other publishers and newspapers of note, both in her evening field. There is Publisher Norman E. Mack of the Times, onetime (1908) national Democratic chairman. And there is energetic Publisher Edward H. Butler, Yale graduate, Republican, who so far from being "sick of ink" runs his Evening News in a model establishment and has lately accepted the office of vice-president in the American Newspaper Publishers' Association (TIME...
Anonymity is a convenient shelter from which to shoot ink-venomed arrows at the broad target of worldly foibles. Unfortunately this system, so advantageous to the attacker, has come under the ban common to all unsportsmanlike conduct. Ever since the Arabian nights, the public has regarded invisibility as an unfair weapon...