Word: newspaperman
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week the book department of Lord & Taylor, Manhattan department store, leased by the Doubleday-Doran Book Shops, Inc., stopped displaying Mrs. Eddy. Simultaneously The New Republic, Manhattan liberal weekly, appeared with an article by Newspaperman Craig F. Thompson of the New York World, entitled "The Christian Science Censorship." Said Newspaperman Thompson: "The Church maintains in every state . . . a Committee on Publication . . . 'to correct in a Christian manner injustices done Mrs. Eddy or members of this Church by the daily press, by periodicals or circulated literature of any sort...
After hearing Graham McNamee describe the Dempsey-Tunney fight of 1927, a fairly hardboiled newspaperman* wrote: "Tears, murders, fever were in that voice. . . . I thought from time to time he was going to break down and cry. The emotional load was too great for a human heart...
Theodore Roosevelt, Governor of Porto Rico and (selfstyled) "ambassador to the Caribbean," gets help from newspapermen on the tyro Spanish in which, with dogged goodwill, he addresses his charges when- ever he can. Last week one newspaperman could not forbear to relay to the U. S. two of the Governor's better "breaks" in recent Spanish-speeches...
Claire Adams depicts the Jobian trials of a young newspaperman who is persuaded by his bride to leave spacious Waco, Tex., for a one-room flat in Manhattan. The city's restless vastitude soon undermines his ambition; he is unable to write his novel, is too frequently in need of sleep. Meanwhile his wife experiments with a wealthy fellow, gets in deeper and deeper, is finally implicated in a knife murder which her husband is sent to report. It is a sordid, ordinary tragedy, conceived and acted without much imagination. A Primer for Lovers. Playwright William Hurlbut once concerned...
Concluded Advertisingman Klein: "A newspaperman's training-his 'deadline' habit of thinking on his feet-will get him further in a money way in advertising. . . . And why not, brethren? Ask your wives. These newspapermen's wives- almost always superior in brains and breeding to their old school friends riding around in Cadillacs and Studebakers-will tell you that the boys are just trying to believe they're still living in the glamorous...