Word: newsstand
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...most particularly do I delight in your sophistry in an age when the daily papers are so shocked at every tiny incident, be it a street car off the track, just another murder, or scandal in public life. It is indeed a restful and soothing experience to approach my newsstand each week. DOUGLAS W. CHURCHILL...
There are some 18,000 TIME subscribers and newsstand buyers in New York. Do the other 90,000 TIME buyers desire that funds (which might otherwise be expended for the general good of TIME) be expended for a special New York state edition...
Almost a week ago Chase arranged with the Boston police for the arrest of any person selling a copy of the April issue of the Mercury. The proprietor of Felix' newsstand was arrested on a charge preferred following this agreement...
...arrest of Felix 'aragianes, proprietor of Felix' newsstand on Harvard Square, is the latest stop in the suppression of the April number of the American Mercury. He was arranged in court yesterday morning to answer to preliminary action in a criminal suit against him, but the case was dismissed for two weeks...
...gnaws 20 minutes before train time, you make for the lunch counter and order?chicken a la King? Beef casserole? Braised pork? More likely, old dependable ham and eggs. They are too familiar to cause your palate much excitement, but as some one has said, they satisfy. Passing the newsstand, if your appetite for fiction is not to be trifled with by a mere magazine, do you pore over cryptic titles, flashy jackets, alluring blurbs? Hardly ever. Briskly, confidently, you seize an Oppenheim or a Dell, a Harry Leon Wilson, Sabatini, Irvin Cobb, Wallace Irwin, Arthur Train?...