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...elected Samuel Insull Jr. their president over public utility companies which serve electricity, gas or transportation to 194 communities of Ohio, Indiana and Michigan. He accepted the appointment with the grace of his mother, onetime Actress Margaret A. Bird, and with the complacent assurance of his father, Electricity Monger Samuel Insull...
Agronomic item from Club-Fellow (reputation monger of the Town Topics school) : "The Secretary of Agriculture, Mr. Jardine, has his family established for the summer at Southampton,* L. I., the first time he or she have [sic] ever deigned to take on a fashionable resort. We are waiting to see how far his official position gets the Jardines into the social life at Southampton...
...Forhan Co. does not monger its dentifrice as a cureall. Its conservative advertisements typically declare: "If used regularly and in time, Forhan's checks or prevents pyorrhea. ... If you already have pyorrhea see your dentist for treatment and start using Forhan's." But always the fear-slogan is repeated: "Pyorrhea steals upon you like a thief in the night. . . . Pyorrhea seizes four out of five...
...days when U. S. journalism was young and yellow, newspapermen often quarreled violently and in public. One editor would refer to his colleague as "that scurrile cur, that . . . slander-monger Drennelthorpe, of the Courier Gazette . . . whereupon Mr. Drennelthorpe would visit the writer with a bowie knife and a hickory cudgel. Every reporter was trained to use a shotgun, and in most composing rooms a portrait of Andrew Jackson looked down with sombre eyes upon a neat rack of buggy-whips. Newspaper men still quarrel. Most of them do so with a certain reticence. Respecting the dignity of their differences, they...
These two assertions do not pardon the paper which spreads divorce in three inch headlines, savors the front page with a murder, and polishes off the whole with a hero story of bandits beaten off. Such news helps no one save the scandal monger...