Word: known
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...identified it early. And furthermore, we enjoy a certain social position in the community. The name I am signing to this letter is not the one which appears on my business letterhead, as I use this one only in connection with an endeavor in which my "alter ego" is known. This is the first time I have ever written the facts of my little peculiarity for publication. Fortunately I was able to find out what had bitten me before it drove me into difficulties. Let us hope that the young man in Boston is not sent to an insane asylum...
...type of newspaper feature-writers in Washington known to other newsmen as "the butter brigade," the "New Patriots" are food and drink. Upon "New Patriot" careers these journalistic biographers seize to produce Sunday "human interest" articles, in which the "New Patriot" is extolled out of all bounds, his "sacrifice" overemphasized, his Federal service gilded with excessive promise...
...Tabloids" have come to be known, not for their handy size but for the low-matter most of them print...
...citizen and worker, is obvious and anything but original. But it is done so cheerfully, so sincerely, with such brave and decent effort at realism, that it far transcends what might be banality. It is a warm, vigorous, if somewhat naïve book by a writer who has known and taken seriously all kinds and conditions of his fellow men. The Book-of-the-Month Club chose it for July...
Girls Schooled. Twice-knighted* Cassity E. Mason, principal of Miss Mason's School at Tarrytown-on-Hudson', N. Y., last week announced flying as a new study for her girls next autumn. No other girls' school is known to offer such a course. Director of instruction will be Roland Harvey Spaulding,* Guggenheim professor of aeronautics at New York University and head of the Curtiss Flying Service ground school at that university. Proclaimed Miss Mason: "All pupils at all times will be accompanied by a chaperon...