Word: pressmen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...miscellaneous stagehands, ticket takers, officeworkers, wire-pullers. Each season 4 millions is taken in by the box office. Each season Manager Gatti-Casazza goes to probe in Europe for new operas, new singers. It was about some of these that he read so sonorously to the pressmen while kindly Mr. William Guard, interpreter, translated his words, sentence by sentence...
...Pressmen nodded sagely, though it is unlikely that many of them knew any more than Leverhulme's perplexed trustees about the knock out system. Knockout, in the ar got of the U. S. collegian, is a floating superlative used to qualify any object whose speed, efficiency or sex-appeal appalls rhetoric. In England the pressmen soon ascertained it is something else entirely...
...Leningrad arrived John Maynard Keynes with Mrs. Keynes (Lupokova, the famed Russian dancer). He was present as guest of the Academy of Sciences-representative of Cambridge University at the Academy's bicentenary. To Soviet pressmen the celebrated economist spoke as follows...
...Upon Calvin Coolidge called one William B. Smith, owner of White Court. According to pressmen, Mr. Smith said afterwards of his distinguished tenant: "I'd like to see him buy White Court for his summer home...
...marked with the initials "V. L." Reporters were somewhat skeptical of the woman. One of the notes on the passport picture was the name of Elinor Glyn. A telegram to the famed novelist in California elicited the reply that she knew no woman of this description. One of the pressmen, the representative of The New York Herald-Tribune, thereupon refused to have anything more to do with the "victim...