Word: post
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...athlete, undefended from the time of the post-football lull in news, when for services rendered he was analyzed and damned by a score of professors, has now the last fellow in misery that he would want--the Phi Beta Kappa Man. For Mr. Thomas Slocum, writing in the current issue of the Advocate, has reduced the key man--who has been pretty triumphant lately, what with Dean's prizes and English literature sweepstakes, and all--to the low estate of the athlete. The unfortunate fact is that to attack either is the very height of unsportsmanlike penplay, for both...
...Last week Sheppard made, executive editor of Liberty made a two-page confession to his readers. He said in part: "It doesn't make any particular hit with us when people try to make themselves friendly by telling how terrible the old Post is getting to be. The Post is a pretty successful publishing enterprise. It makes a few pennies and has a few readers. . . . We are not addressing ourselves to thoughtful gentlemen who sit in club windows on Fifth Avenue and read editorials in the [New York] Times. We are not appealing to the smart, fashionable rich...
With her contemporaries Life had fun in her own May 3 issue. Almost typographically perfect, she burlesqued the Saturday Evening Post, Cosmopolitan, New Masses, Colliers, The Nation, True Story, Harpers Bazar, Judge, New Yorker, College Humor, American Mercury, Arts and Decoration, Poetry, McCalls, Scientific American, The Eclipse Lovers Weekly, Christian Herald, Lariat Story Magazine, TIME...
President Calvin Coolidge figured in the laughs. His name was signed to a letter saying The Nation was a "darb"; his picture was substituted for Benjamin Franklin's in the masthead of the Saturday Evening Post, which was published "in association with the United States mint and N. W. Ayer...
...abroad, well away from inquisitive friends. Her profession too-writing heart-to-heart patter for London Sunday supplements-seemed to her so painfully vulgar that she concealed it under the name of Marjorie Wynne. Not that it wasn't good of its kind ("Career or Babies for the Post-War Girl?"), and in great demand for its popular appeal, but that was just exactly why Daisy, out of her snobbishness, loathed it, and was grateful to Daphne for forgetting it among their well-bred friends...