Word: paged
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...instance, in your May 14 issue, 3rd column, page 18, what possible excuse have you for referring to the late Queen Victoria of England as "dumpy"; the word lacks respect when it refers to that beloved ruler of a Great Nation who during her life was described as "the most Queenly woman and the most womanly Queen of her time...
Communism has never won political support in the U. S. as it has in some European countries (see page 15). Its ablest figure, the late Charles Emil Ruthenberg was a longshoreman's son who worked in factories and newspaper offices. The new leader William Zebulon Foster, 47, was a wandering slum boy of Taunton, Mass., who obtained a haphazard education in public libraries. First he was a Socialist, but in 1919 that party "expelled" him for his part in the I. W. W. steel strikes of that year. He was later convinced that the I. W. W. program...
Dewey doctrines are best not heard from the lips of the Second Confucius. His delivery is monotonous, halting, full of long pauses while the great mind ponderously moves careless of the impatience of auditors. But a printed page of Dewey is starred with diadems...
...flung upon the stage. One scheduled play about newspaper folk is Gentlemen of the Press by Ward Morehouse, who writes dramatic notes for the New York Evening Sun. In this a genuine columnist, Russel Crouse of the New York Evening Post, will try acting. Another is The Front Page, by Ben Hecht and Chas. McArthur, sponsored by Jed Harris, which received a tryout in Newark last week...
Mainly, The Front Page depends upon atmosphere for its effect: the presence of lazy, autocratic, hard-boiled newspaper men, their brisk telephone talk with editors, the gay, courageous casual crockery with which newsmongers ply their often disreputable trade. Funny, quick, exciting, and, despite its exaggerations, highly informative, The Front Page seemed full of good reporting. Hildy Johnson was Lee Tracy, out of Broadway; the women's parts were few and not imposing; Phyllis Povah cleverly impersonated a chewy little tart...