Word: press
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from Hyde Park to Warm Springs, with a brief stop-over in Washington, dedicated a community centre, made a joke about the third term, carved a turkey at the Thanksgiving dinner for the patients at the Warm Springs Foundation, looked over his 2,500-acre Georgia farm, held a press conference at the roadside while sitting at the wheel of his car, discussed taxes, and in general provided reporters with nothing to write about...
Containing pictures of all but two of the 912 Freshmen, the 1943 Register has already gone to press and will appear next Thursday, according to a statement made yesterday by Charles M. Bliss '43, chairman of the Red Book. Circulation will exceed last year's, he predicted, as a hand-picked list of 150 debutantes has received invitations to subscribe...
Thus ended, six weeks after it began, Beach Conger's brief career as a Berlin bureau chief. Born in Berlin, he is the son of a foreign correspondent: the late Seymour Beach Conger Sr. spent 13 years in Russia and Germany for Associated Press, was attached to the German Army during World War I. Young Conger was graduated from the University of Michigan in 1932, went twice around the world, then joined the Herald Tribune staff two years...
...paragraph, "in any nat. capitol in the world." Fortnight ago Mrs. Johnson faced eviction from her studio-home in Washington. Thereupon she did what Susan Anthony, no believer in shillyshally, would have heartily approved: she took a hammer, smashed half her statuary, called in the press. To Painter Rockwell Kent's wired appeal that she stop her smashing she retorted: "That is a matter between myself...
...decided to find out why. She also wanted to know who the 85,000,000 are, what movies do to them and how they do it. Recently Author Thorp published her findings. Though she modestly says that any such book as hers (America at the Movies, Yale University Press; $2.75) must be "inadequate," "inaccurate," "written rapidly and superficially," to many a reader it may seem crisp, witty, just-a comprehensive roundup of candid facts about people who make, act in and look at movies...