Word: journalism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...semi-official Paris Journal des Débats agreed, called Mr. Houghton's alleged report "impolitic . . . defamatory to French policy . . . without precedent." The London Times backed up the sobriquet "Gloomy Gus," saying: "Mr. Houghton has apparently told his Government that the present state of Europe is hopeless...
...sent to the Senate the name of Thomas F. Woodlock. "He lives in New York," cried Senators from the South. The President could not deny it. "He is a financier, a director of the Pere Marquette Railroad and the St. Louis-San Francisco. He writes for the Wall Street Journal, and even edited it once," cried Western radicals. The President did not deny this. He even let it be known that Mr. Woodlock owed his appointment to his experience as a financier. The biggest problem now before the I. C. C. is railroad consolidation, of which the financial complexities...
Detroit folk rose last Saturday week for their Lenten breakfasts. Most of their Catholic concitoyens, they reflected, were already at mass-breakfastless. Beautiful conception, commendable observation,-but . . . They were going to eat their own breakfasts, would study the Free Press, that carefully edited journal, then to work...
Morality will continue and magazines will continue. So not alone will the subway sensual glean his grit from pink periodicals of dubious editing, but the uniformed saviour of souls and director of difficulties, moral, matrimonial and vehicular will find some journal of the haute monde of cleverness and thin satire on which to base his belief that the movies are right, that sin sits in high places. There will be times when other papers, with even less to damn them than "Hatrack" and less to sell them than Mencken, rest in naughty niches safe from the gaze of the Bostonian...
...Though it is true that Pango-Pango is an odd name, the value of the truth is not over powerful. In fact there are many more valuable axioms--for instance the well remembered one concerning the necessity for leisure in a civilization before the advent of culture. The Boston journal, however, has not discovered that. Journalists usually don't. Leisure to them is incidental--like editorials on Harvard...