Word: newsstand
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Evangelist Sunday last visited Manhattan two days after the U. S. declared war on Germany (April 6, 1917). At the Tabernacle, hastily-built auditorium on Broadway at 168th Street, he sermonized on patriotism, second coming of Jesus Christ, the growth of Christianity, motherhood. Let Newsstand-Buyer Willis entrain for Ocean Grove, N. J., where Evangelist Sunday was expected the last week of August; let him quiz Evangelist Sunday on his avoidance of Manhattan...
...Newsstand Buyer Whitbeck continue to have faith in TIME. Jack Johnson was invited by the Rev. Clarence True Wilson, Secretary of the Methodist Board of Temperance & Morals, to address a conference of that body meeting in Convention Hall, Kansas City, at the time of the Methodist General Conference. Let Newsstand Buyer Whitbeck continue also to rely upon the reiterations of his Bishop; Jack Johnson did not officially address the General Conference...
...dinner will be strictly formal and will be limited to 250 people, including the guests. Applications for tickets, which will be about $2, are now being received at the newsstand...
...former subscriber but for the past year have been buying TIME at the newsstand and sometimes I often get there too late to get a copy. I enclose my check for $5.00 for a year's subscription...
Take, for example, the True Story magazine, kingpin of Bernarr Macfadden's confession group (True Romances, True Experiences, Dream World). Boasting of "the largest newsstand sale in the world," more than 2,000,000 a month, True Story sets the fashion in sex yarns. In May 1919, its first issue appeared with some sober items about Elsie Ferguson, Billie Burke, William S. Hart, Douglas Fair banks. But the meat of the magazine was confession fiction. Of these stories, six contained attempted seductions, three contained successful seductions. A successful one was described as follows: "His kisses intoxicated me. Everything seemed...