Word: omni
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...alarm clock that was trying to get him up at 7 a.m. He said that he was not going abroad, was not going to become a professional writer. For a few days the spotlight still played about the Coolidges. Their comings and goings were recorded by the press. Omni-snooping reporters went around interviewing Mrs. Coolidge while she dusted up her house. After three days, however, Mr. Coolidge was able to go out on his front porch in shirt sleeves at 7:40 a.m., pick up the morning papers and let out the dog, without being photographed. ¶ The Coolidge...
...Southampton, England, last week. So also was parthenogenesis- female moths, sawflies having propogated themselves for nine generations without male assistance. So also the cancer germ, recently discovered (TIME, July 27, MEDICINE) -it was about to be shown in cinema. The learned men and women treated de omni re scibili et quibusdam aliis, and then went home to wait the official publication of what had been said...
News editors are very weary of being wary. Theirs is an eternal vigilance. To them, everyday is April 1. Only those born in Missouri survive to a ripe old age. Suspicion must become their second nature. The public expects them to be omniscient, omni-accurate. Yet the public conceals facts from them, distorts facts to them, lies to them outright, plays jokes upon them. The good citizen with a "cause" brings propaganda to their desks. Public men lie to the press as an aid to their digestion. Reporters, the emissaries hired by editors to keep them accurately informed, put upon...