Word: presse
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...brutal were these crimes that the French press was led to believe that the long-standing tradition might be broken, whereby no woman has been guillotined in France since 1887. But kindly "Gastounet" ended by commuting all four death sentences to penal servitude for life. They will never go free. "Life imprisonment" in the U. S. often means 20 years in jail, with time off for good behavior. In France it is a sentence that means just what it says...
...press agentry recently included a story of Lupe's gifts from her leading-man ("sweetie"), Gary Cooper. These were two live, well-mated, very hungry eagles, and one stuffed eagle. Lupe was quoted: "Thees heegles-they eat and eat, now that damn mamma heegle, I hate her, for I theenk she get more and more fat and pretty soon poor Lupe she have little heegles all over the place, all eating rabbits and more round steak...
Warm breezes drifted in from the nearby ocean. Hot air arose in the press. A mellow Florida moon lurked behind drifting clouds. Forty thousand men and women in a bowl of raw yellow pine-the Greeks knew how to do these things much better-looked not at the elusive moon but at a garish cone of artificial light in the bowl's bottom...
...Calkins is president of Calkins & Hoiden Inc., prominent Manhattan agency, books on advertising include Louder Please (Atlantic Monthly Press, $2.50), The Business of Advertising (D. Appleton & Co., $2.00), Business, the Civilizer (Little, Brown, & Co., $3.00), and The Advertising Man (Scnbner...
KARL A. BICKEL, President of the United Press: "Journalism has lost more than it will ever know for he had just fairly started on a most brilliant career with all the rough spots behind...