Word: inked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ink. During the week, 270,000 workers were laid off because of fuel and power shortages-200,000 of them in Detroit alone. Rail, river and air transportation was badly disrupted. At subzero temperatures, locomotives were unable to keep up steam pressure. The Ohio River was frozen from shore to shore for the first time in twelve years. Storms at sea delayed the Queen Mary's arrival for two days. In Chicago, where Lake Michigan pilings were so heavily coated with ice that they looked like Sherman tanks (see cut), water-system intakes had to be unclogged with dynamite...
Next day the crowds demonstrated again, to thank the Regent. One paper hailed "the martyrs of the treaty which Britain wrote with ink to bondage Iraq 20 years, and which Iraqis obliterated with blood in three days...
...Lampoon, or Cambridge Charivari Illustrated, Humorous, Etc." One of the earliest issues--a collector's item if that's your idea of a good time--carried, in addition to advertisements for "Silk Smoking Caps, Japanese" and "Brier-wood and Meershaum Pipes, Gambier Bowls, and Toilet Articles," and pen-and-ink drawing of two typical Harvard students ensconced in a gaslit chamber. One gentleman, collared in celluloid, is reclining in a lace-fringed chair, smoking a catarrh cigarette and casually flicking ashes into a brass spittoon. The other is standing firmly before the fireplace, warming the seat of his blue serge...
Even on simple reporting jobs, CRIMSON writers continued to try to prove themselves the ink-stained wretches that Radcliffe thought them to be. One, covering the Phillips Brooks House teas, wrote: "Officials, anxious for pleasant social contacts to be made, point out that the 'Cliffe-dwellers are a rugged tribe. It is also to be noted that they say the new freshman class at Radcliffe is the prettiest in recent years. All of which may be taken at face value...
...someone is surely asking himself, what about the red ink side? There are some debit entries. Carelessness with facts and background in some instances is apparent; indeed, occasionally a story is printed which is entirely wrong. Again, for the older editor at least, their is too much smacking of the journalistic lips over the stripteuse who may currently appear on the local stage...