Word: journalism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Senate business; which turned Senators into a pack of snarling, sleepless animals; which littered the chamber with apple cores, pitchers of ice water and ancient documents. The time-filling tactics of the filibusterers were crude. Instead of reading Shakespeare or Byron, they had the clerk read yesterday's journal. Senator Cameron plodded through a document on copper mining, of which he could not pronounce some of the words. Senator Moses, protectionist, read a four-year-old low tariff speech of Senator Underwood. Senator Blease mouthed the Constitution of South Carolina and described the life and death of Jefferson Davis...
Under TIME, Feb. 7, p. 38, you printed: "Princeton footballer, saturnine Knowlton L. ('Jew') Ames Jr., publisher of the Chicago Journal of Commerce." Why ("Jew") in parenthesis...
When the Gridiron sputtered, there came first a Latin-American revolution. A careful count revealed no casualties, the sole result being the inauguration of two men named Brown as the new Gridiron president. Ultimately it became clear that only one Brown, by name Ashmun Norris of the Providence Journal, was president. The other, Harry Jay Brown of the Salt Lake Tribune, was vice president...
...that merely selects suggestive miscellaneous items from papers several days after they appear. Even this can be done more thoroughly by individual papers for themselves through direct exchanges. The Intercollegiate Press, of course, has the advantage of being in touch with a larger number of colleges than any one journal can be, but at present that touch appears to be too remote to be of much concrete value...
...bronchoscope is a many-jointed, mirrored tube for peering down windpipes, into bronchi; invented by Dr. Chevalier Jackson of Philadelphia, who last week received the $10,000 prize and gold medal given yearly by onetime Editor Edward William Bok (Ladies' Home Journal) to worthy Philadelphians. Dr. Jackson is building up a museum of objects that he has pulled out of lungs and stomachs-buttons, coins, tacks, safety pins, nails, small hardware...