Word: newsstands
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What is in a name? "$25,000" say the Chicago Tribune and its lusty offspring The News (Manhattan). The public is offered $25,000 for a name. Afterwards the public is expected to buy it back many times over in nickels on the newsstand...
Tickets for the Harvard-Yale dance at the Union on the evening of November 23, Friday, are now on sale at the Union newsstand at $3.50 for each person. The number who may attend has been limited to 1000, and of this number 150 tickets have been sent to the Yale Student Council for distribution in New Haven. The limited number and the demand makes it necessary that the demand makes it necessary that the tickets be sold in the order for which they are applied...
...creature rushing hither and yon. They have stooped to headlines, to be sure, but that has been merely a hook thrown out to coach the business man. The special editions which have become customary, and the ever-increasing Sunday supplements are more like an obstinate challenge to him. Every newsstand was once a command to stop and think: but now the presses move faster than ever. The business man has nearly been forced to admit defeat...
...House "qui en mille ans fit la France," the Action Française appears each day. Every morning at an early hour the Camelots, generally young students of the Université de Paris, sell the paper to all and sundry. Besides this there is now quite a large newsstand sale, and it is, of course, supported loyally by all the Royalist Party in France...
...newsstand nymphs gum-chewing...