Word: inking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died, Paul E. Wirt, 85, attorney, inventor of the fountain pen; in Bloomsburg, Pa. Irked by ink constantly spilled on his legal papers, he invented a cumbersome pen, filled by a medicine dropper, on which for a time he held a monopoly...
Newshawks were therefore able to sympathize with the tiny (102 Ib.) actress' dismay as she nervously parried questions with "I t'ink what you t'ink." finally blurted out: "I am thrilled but terrified, so terrified...
...Bainbridge Colby and indirect offers to become wavers of the Hearst banner did surprisingly little to alter their opinion. Drop in the bucket though it may have been, the money which rolled from the Hearstian coffers to smooth the surface can be written in the ledger with red ink. Mr. Hearst, it would seem, is pinning too much faith in human stupidity. The Daily Princetonian...
...Ink-stained since he was 15, Guy Viskniskki first worked at 25? a week for the editor of a smalltown Illinois paper. He attended Swarthmore College, served in the Spanish-American War. In the World War he helped start the A. E. F.'s Stars & Stripes. After eight more years in the newspaper and syndicate business, he landed with Hearst in 1926 as business manager of the Washington Times. Then began his "wrecking crew" fame. From Hearstpaper to Hearstpaper he went, receiving the title of business manager in each place while he worked to change red ink to black...
...even Radio took seriously the enormous implications of Judge Bowen's decision, which would give it final victory in the war of Ink v. Air. Watchful Editor & Publisher shouted characteristic alarums, but individual newsmen were confident that higher courts would reverse the Bowen decision...