Word: presse
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...TIME was concerned this great National organization just didn't exist, notwithstanding the fact that the Associated Press, Chicago Tribune and other papers had alert reporters on hand during the entire week. And yet, it is safe to estimate that that gathering, including many of the nation's most brilliant womanhood, represented a greater percentage of TIME readers than any similar group of men. Was TIME asleep during the week of July...
...President descended from his Shenandoah National Park Camp, made a non-political speech, ate barbecue with his fingers. Declared President Hoover: "Next to prayer, fishing is the most personal relationship of man. . . . Everybody concedes that fish will not bite in the presence of the public and the press...
...invited him in. Poor, shy, the boy hesitated, but the kindly clerk inveigled him to an inner room, laid before him the very window display at which he had been gazing-a copy of the works of Chaucer, designed and made at William Morris's famed Kelmscott Press, with typography as virile and rich as the pungent medieval poetry which the letters spelled out. The boy lingered while the clerk drew many another fastidiously wrought volume from Scribner's most valued shelves...
...important, for the friendly clerk was Lewis Hatch, who became a great bibliophile and continued to befriend the young window-gazer. After a number of disastrous printing ventures, Cleland came under the tutelage and iron discipline of able Daniel Berkeley Updike, whose work at Boston's famed Merrymount Press raised the entire level of U. S. printing. The true printer's quiet love for arranging type and ornament has never left him-he still supervises the lettering and printing processes of all his work...
...other side of the prize ring the Paris press stormed, catcalled. "It is possible to say," wrote famed authoritative "Pertinax" (Andre Geraud) in L'Echo de Paris, "that never before has so bitter a quarrel raged between London and Paris...