Word: plums
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Familiar to most newsmen but perhaps difficult for laymen to believe is Editor Gauvreau's account of how sensational stories were deliberately cooked up and kept alive by artificial respiration in the dizzy scramble for circulation. Notable was the case of "Uncle Cocoa" Rodgers ("Daddy" Browning) and "Sugar Plum'' McGinnis ("Peaches" Heenan), whose queasy romance and parting were practically engineered in the Comet's editorial rooms. With the eager connivance of the exhibitionist Uncle Cocoa, the Comet's reporters wrote his and his wife's "own stories" of their honeymoon, contrived new bedroom stunts...
...Paris, tries to shake off the fever of Tabloidia, finds himself too deeply infected. Finally, in an improbable transoceanic telephone conversation with his most loyal reporter who has gone over to the Lantern, he consents to return and succeed his old friend Wayne there. Exultantly cries the reporter: "Sugar Plum is suing Uncle Cocoa and we've got it exclusive. . . . What kind of a head shall we put on it?" To which Editor Peters replies: "Keep it down to seventy-two point, and make room for other news besides Uncle Cocoa. Let's get out a well rounded...
Your critic speaks of the "many ponderous plums" which can be "pulled out of this (my) heavy Teutonic pudding." I like plum pudding but I always thought that it was an English, not a Teutonic dish. His description of me "thick-spectacled, thick-lipped and thick-nosed" wounds my Narcissism...
...scheme is simple, must have been fun for the author. It consists of alternating Viereck verse and Viereck prose, chronologically arranged, the prose a commentary on the verse. If you don't mind getting your fingers a little greasy you may pull out many a ponderous plum from this fat Teutonic pudding. "The Hohenzollern family seems to have a talent for writing as well as for ruling. . . . My great-great-grand-uncle, Frederick the Great. . . ." Hohenzollern Viereck, it appears, has also been, if not a great ladies' man, at least a big woman's man. He tells...
...More Plum, When such financially august gentlemen were elected to the Board it was certain that the ghost would be laid. But there soon was evidence that it was a trying party. In Wall Street there is a phrase well known among bankers-"O. P. M." which means "Other Peoples' Money." Usually O. P. M. is used to solve problems, but in the Fox case although a total of $75,000,000 was put up last week, only $30,000,000 was 0. P. M., obtained by selling new bonds to the public. And Fox stock instead of being...