Word: press
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Pound is a little discouraged about the chances of spreading his ideas in this country for he thinks the press contains "a deluge of lies." He concluded that "its mendacity is not as efficient here as it is in England, but the confusion is worse...
...Hopkins of the Baltimore Sun; Osburn Zuber, editorial writer for the Birmingham News; Irving Dillard, editorial writer on the St. Louis Post-Dispatch; Louis M. Lyons of the Boston Globe; John McL. Clark, editorial writer on the Washington Post; Hilary H. Lyons, Jr., chief editorial writer for the Mobile Press Register; and E. Wesley Fuller, Jr. '33 of the Boston Herald...
While Senator O'Mahoney and his western colleagues are sputtering to the press for the benefit of friends back home, the State Department is quietly proceeding with its plan to "feed the navy on foreign beef." Argentina offers a product at 9 cents; American producers ask 23 cents; the navy begins to buy from Argentina. Obviously a subversive and un-American transaction. . . standard of living doomed . . . Japan; now Argentina. But more important than the patent stupidity involved in such typical protectionist reasoning is the fact that such Congressional utterances constitute destructive opposition to the far-reaching policy of Pan-Americanism...
...highbusted Drama League, John was royally pickled. Up & down traveled his voice, to a bull-like bellow, to a bird-like whisper. Scandalized were Omaha's great ladies when he ad-libbed such lines as "Albert, you look like a pregnant string bean." Afterwards Barrymore's press-agent offered the excuse that he had been "very tired." Concurred the Drama League's lady president: "He must have been very, very, VERY tired...
...Among the most frequent mistakes in grammar (habitually made by the press, and even by college graduates): I only have two; You will do as I say; What are his politics? She goes from worst to worst; He's better than any man in the world...