Word: presse
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...furore which the event is reported to have caused in New Haven. It is certainly to be hoped that those who consider themselves directly offended by the incident will preserve sufficient sense of humour to prevent any such consequences as are hinted at by the alarmists of the professional press...
Other possible origins of the quake are the Merrimac Valley, and the St. Lawrence Valley in Quebec. Professor Mather believes, however, that it is very unlikely that they were the cause of the tremor. Associated Press dispatches state that the strongest effects of the earthquake were felt in Nova Scotia, rather than in the vicinity of Boston...
Much discussion has taken place in the press concerning whether Phillips, substitute center for Palmer, called the signals during the second half of the Princeton game. The Yale Athletic Association stated last night that Phillips acted in this capacity, after McLennan was substituted for Bob Hall. As McLennan is the third substitute quarterback, and had not been calling signals during the season, Phillips was asked to direct the plays and give the numbers when the ball was to be snapped
Oldtime journalists have almost stopped marvelling at the antics and contortions of the Associated Press, for a generation grave, factual and colorless under its late great Founder President Melville Elijah Stone; since 1925 jazzed and "rejuvenated" under General Manager Kent Cooper. But last week oldtimers got one more startle. An Associated Press despatch from Evanston, 111., reported that a blonde girl had sold to housewives some "lily bulbs" which proved, after a week in water, to be stones. Peculiarities of the report were its complete omission of names and its precious form. It was written in something approximating rhymed couplets...
...bankers have left Baden, and their work awaits the decision of a second meeting of the Powers at the Hague. In the interim, persons whose knowledge of the situation is valued are plagued by the press to declare an opinion. Else where in this mornings's CRIMSON Professor Doriot has explained to Harvard readers the work which was accomplished at Baden, and has found but one criticism or cause for regret great enough to deserve his stress. Frankfort, he says, or Cologne, or some other German city might have been superior to Basel as a location for the International Bank...