Word: papered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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After pondering these facts maturely and examining certain statistics relative thereunto, Dr. Pearl wrote a paper, published in the December American Mercury, called "The Psychology of Prohibition." The statistics he examined showed that...
Homer Hoch, born on the Fourth of July in Marion, Kan., is a slim, sharp, dark firecracker under the oldtimers of the House. Not yet 50, he switched about in a variety of Government jobs, kept up his law practice, edited a country paper. He entered Congress in 1919. He stands high as a transportation expert and is rapidly learning the technique of the Steering Committee...
...outlined by Governor Brewster-with such joyous phrases as "in the twinkling of an eye" and "like the house that Jack built"-the job reserve is to consist of some three billion dollars worth of public construction projects on paper. Getting the projects off paper, translating them at judicious moments into sweat-producing, belly-filling, back-covering jobs for labor, and into cash-registering orders for business will depend upon the extent to which federal, state and municipal legislative bodies and officers can be persuaded and helped to "cooperate" (Hoover's favorite word). Also, patience and discretion will...
...veteran New York ship-news reporters, James Edmund Duffy, for ten years meeting boats for the Telegram, was frantically denounced in connection with his stories on the Vestris disaster. Supported by his paper, corroborated by reporters on other papers, last week he emerged hero of the occasion...
...dealt the first gesture towards press censorship and the first attempt to set up a commercial printing shop: "Publick Occurrances both Foreign and Domestick," appeared on September 26, 1690, and was immediately forbidden from the Colonies. The Governor and council gave expression to "high resentment and disallowance" to this paper printed by Richard Pierce for Benjamin Harris of Boston, and forbade anyone "for the future to set forth anything in print without license first obtained...