Word: pressmen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Pressmen could get no aliment from these reported phone-calls and telegrams; but when, next day, a number of Chinamen were shot down, singly, and for no apparent reason, in widely separated parts of the U. S., typewriters stuttered, and a frightening word began to boom in the headlines of even the conservative papers: TONG...
...piazza, near the barn door, near the flower garden. Mrs. Coolidge, having exhausted her first roll of film, tried unsuccessfully to unload the unfamiliar German magazine. The President, appealed to, was unable to aid her. He looked about him, spied one "Dick" Sears, Boston cinema cameraman, standing among the pressmen. Catching the President's eye, up rushed Mr. Sears. He mastered the German mechanism and coached Mrs. Coolidge in its use for a moment. He was permitted to film Mrs. Coolidge as she snapped away her next half dozen negatives...
...come so late?" asked critics. "Because five days is enough time for our men to train in; and if it is not enough, we cannot afford longer," replied the Britishers. "Why have you no coach?" asked pressmen. "For the same reason: we cannot afford one," said they. At Cambridge, Mass., blond David, Lord Burghley, heard a pistol pop, took a step, two, three, sailed over a white hurdle, repeated this bounding, this stepping for 120 yards, winning the first event for England...
...becoming if he turned professional. In 1911, at the age of 28, he made his debut in the Costanzi Theatre at Rome, created a sensation which won him a three-year contract with La Scala. Now the royal families of Italy and Spain attend his concerts. When asked by pressmen why he had never sung at the Metropolitan, the cork came out of his bottle. Said he: "Because they will not pay my price.* I can sing well. I know it. I won't pay to be heard here. By that, I mean that I will not give...
...Taylor had also agreed, at the Society's behest, to compose an orchestral work for its program next season; the august Director, Dr. Walter Damrosch himself, had announced that he would conduct the Society's famed orchestra at the presentation of Gershwin's, of Taylor's, compositions. Inevitably, the pressmen wanted to catch Mr. Gershwin before he sailed for London. They wanted to ask him if he were fond of animals, if he had ever been arrested, what he thought of U. S. women, U. S. traffic laws, U. S. music. The most brazen among them, a goggled fellow, rapped...