Word: pressingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week's end, Columnist Walter Winchell sneered in Hearst's rival Mirror that the brawl was just "a neat press [agents'] stunt." The News, which didn't care, gratefully prepared to send $10 to the nightclubber who had tipped...
...Women's National Press Club promptly announced one of its 1948 "achievement" awards for British-born Actress Madeleine Carroll, for "combining excellence in her chosen career with continuing service to humanity." Other winners: Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt ("Woman of the Year"), 88-year-old self-taught Painter "Grandma" Moses, and Novelist Mary Jane Ward (The Snake...
...facilities for arriving at judgments social or artistic and he is apparently without religion of any kind." His sister Mary is no better, nor are his parents. They, too, are adolescent, "not free men and women but base mechanicals . . . the products and patrons of mass management ... of a standardized press and radio, of slick magazines and book clubs, of an overly vocationalized education, of pressure salesmanship...
...operation for a bone spur last fall. The heel got worse instead of better. In exhibition games in Texas recently he tried putting some pressure on it, and the pain made sport-page headlines from Maine to Mexico. Last week, while DiMag was flown to Baltimore for diagnosis, the press speculated on 1) whether he would be out of the line-up for a few weeks or forever and 2) whether the New York Yankees would pay him $90,000 for a season of sitting on the bench...
...Baltimore Catechism (St. Anthony Guild Press, $1) published this week...