Word: obit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...went through the motions of getting out two more editions. In the composing room, printers set up a front-page box bearing a curt farewell. As had happened too often, readers had to turn to other papers to get the complete news; the Star did not even carry an obit on its own death...
...haughty little magazines and the anthologists never knew him, and would have ignored him if they had. But all their Rapunzel-haired poets together never spoke to an audience the size of his. And when he died last .week, the New York Times obit said of Philip Stack: "He was rated the leader in his art." It was a lowly art: he was the nameless mass-producer of saccharine sentiments on millions of greeting cards. For Walter Winchell's millions of readers he penned disillusioned doggerel under the pseudonym "Don Wahn." But his real name was familiar...
This week Science published the first obit that had not been carefully edited and put to press by Editor James McKeen Cattell...
...must to all scientists, a Science obit had come to Dr. Cattell...
...Stephens, the double-talking ex-basketball great, did himself proud at both the smoker and afterwards in Harvard Square where he occupied himself asking gendarmes where he could find the quanta obit-blah-blah-blah--and if it wasn't close by? The bobbies were befuddled no end. Anything...