Word: mens
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Another thing that made journalists snort at Columbia last week was the annual report of Dr. John William Cunliffe, director of Columbia's School of Journalism. Wrote he: "Reporting and copy-reading (if the terms are strictly interpreted) are young men's jobs and most of those engaged in them get out into executive or editorial positions as soon as they can; very few wish to stay as reporters or copyreaders all their lives; the strain is too great...
Karl and Anna. Men who fall in love with women merely by hearing about them or looking at their photographs or reading their letters are usually found only in empurpled romances. The Theatre Guild's seasonal curtain-raiser attempts to make such a man seem a creature of reality. In a Russian prison camp, Hero Karl is tortured by the lash of his captors and by the sick, contagious desire of his fellow-prisoner Richard for his wife Anna. Richard vividly describes Anna's habits, her womanliness, the mole on her hip, until Karl feels that he knows...
...good day a year, and he knows when it's coming." Amazed, the Chicago rooters saw Pitcher Ehmke's easy looking curves, mixed with occasional fast ones, break a world series record by striking out 13, saw him in the third inning, with two men on, fan famed Hitters Rogers Hornsby and Hack Wilson with a total of seven pitched balls. Every delivery, made with a sidearm motion wide of the box, kept the ball lined against a blind spot, made by some extra bleachers in the green outfield, which Ehmke had noticed in practice. Rallying behind...
...their mail business. Most were not. The money-makers argued that their present profits were just beginning to wipe out the losses which they had endured in previous years. A strong debating point was the fact that the Government needs a large and efficient air service to provide trained men and ready material in case of war. For that future possibility it is paying the mail carriers a virtual subsidy as are foreign governments. In Europe the subsidies average $1 a mile flown, with little return in the form of postage. In the U. S. the mock subsidy also averages...
...Washington Advertising Club: "My own judgment is that the Federal Government should concentrate its exceptional aid on a few natural transportation routes which have been traveled by ox team, pony express, railroad, automobile and airplane, because people and commodities have naturally traveled over such routes since white men came to America...