Word: merite
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...copy, Esquire's first issue was composed of 116 large pages of shiny paper, 40 of them printed in color. Even more inviting than the handsome format of Esquire was its table of contents, in which each item had been selected not for artistic or literary merit but on the criterion of "an especial appeal for men." The first issue contained an article on marlin fishing by Ernest Hemingway; an article on Burlesque, called "I Am Dying, Little Egypt," by Gilbert Seldes; an interview with Nicholas Murray Butler by Artist Samuel Johnson-Woolf. Charles Hanson Towne had a piece...
...writer, Pegler's chief merit is an attentive, saturnine realism. The first paragraph of his piece before last week's most widely publicized prizefight: "Jack Sharkey, the prizefighter who took up failure as a vocation in life and made a brilliant success of it, is fighting his old friend Tommy Loughran in Philadelphia tonight. There is a contest in which it ought to be possible to stir up the widest disinterest...
...unless a second and third set of codes are to be enforced on industry, that boost to keep consumption up to rising prices will have to come from union pressure in each business. And the difficulties which would face the imposition of more codes are too obvious to merit further discussion. General Johnson, then, ought to drop his vacillation, so foreign to his newspaper character, and give a definite decision on this matter without delay...
...Last week General Johnson admitted that he had let the "merit" provision on labor go into the automobile code "in an unguarded moment," declared he would bar it from all others...
...Roberts that evening: "It was admitted by counsel for the complainant, at the arraignment, that the complainant had no dealings with me and had never seen or spoken to me. It seems obvious, therefore, that the charge against me is based upon false allegations and is wholly without merit...