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...take the place of the Ten Commandments. . . . Copy can be casually optimistic, but no more. . . . National ads . . . are all loused up with overexcited, overeager, overhappy faces. .. . Another mortal sin is the four-color food spreads [of] so-called salads of marshmallows and sliced pineapple trapped in a bed of mint-green gelatine topped with maraschino cherries. I am certain these monstrous double-trucks have set American cookery back 50 years...
Then I can nearly always tell mint julep from grape jello...
Case No. 2 was the story of a Delaware horse-owner, who had switched horses' names and made a mint by racing a good horse as a long-shot unknown. William F. Mink, the owner, picked up an unimpressive five-year-old gelding named All-pulch for $210. Next, at Pimlico last fall, he claimed Sea Command, son of War Admiral...
...bequest in the will of Mrs. Agnes Wahl Nieman are attending the conference, which began yesterday with a discussion on international affairs by Dean Landis and others in the Faculty Club. Today there will be two dinners, a breakfast, a luncheon, a tea, a "Derby party with Mint Juleps," and two forums...
...muggs, legmen and copy-deskers alike, soon made Variety the richest word-coining mint of the century, to the bafflement of laymen and the delight of language fans like H. L. Mencken and G. B. Shaw. Some of its headlines (such as its 1929 crash flash, WALL STREET LAYS AN EGG, and its STIX Nix Hix Fix, when bucolic cinemas' flopped in the hinterland) have attained a kind of backstage immortality. So have flopperoo, push over, palooka, scram, to click; and such trade phrases as "boff" (a variation of sock or punch) for smash hit, "preem," as a verb...