Word: pressmen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...chief requisites for an entertaining talker are an exuberant vanity, a wit modified by the ability to criticize a remark before it is made, and above all something to talk about. Joseph Pennell, famed etcher, has entertained a great many people-great authors whose books he has illustrated, pressmen who have interviewed him, artists who have asked him to dinner, ladies' clubs before which he has lectured on his own life and works. Thousands of sincere admirers have said to him: "Oh, Mr. Pennell, you do talk so splendidly you really ought to put it all down...
...great music. Mr. Rockefeller believes it is a sweet sound. Not so an architect, Maxwell Hyde, who wrote to the New York Times declaring the bells to be "a nuisance"; not so an aged paralytic, who declared the bells tortured him; not so young mothers, who stated to pressmen that they "keep the children awake...
...because they regard New York City as a sink of iniquity in whose cleansing their conscience impels them to assist. But recently, when Dr. Harris Elliott Kirk of Baltimore was asked to take charge of the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church, he refused. Such a rejection was obviously "news"; pressmen hurried to interview Dr. Kirk. In reply to their inquiries, he stated calmly that there were sown fields in Baltimore which he had "worked over and prayed over" whose harvests were "as yet unreaped." He had discovered after the call came that he wielded a greater influence over his flock than...
...quarterback who, in three years of college football, had gained a total number of yards amounting to more than two miles; who had scored 31 touchdowns in 19 games, many of them after runs of 60, 70, 80 yards; who had been forced, by the unwelcome attention of pressmen, to go into a sentineled retirement before this game. On and on he raced, through pools of shadow that spotted the field, swaying past poised tacklers; and the roar of the prodigious hippodrome rose to delirium, for it seemed for a moment that he might get away, might do the thing...
During one of the intermissions William Guard, kindly lieutenant of Manager Gatti-Casazza, called pressmen into his office, informed them that they had been wrong to say that La Vestale was being presented for the first time in the U. S.; it was given in the fall of 1828, he said, by the French Opera Company of New Orleans...