Word: print
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...brilliant, unkempt figure of Heywood Broun lumbered back into the newspaper business again last week. For four months Mr. Broun has been writing for The Nation (which avers his contributions added 7,000 readers); other weeklies and monthlies. In August the famed columnist struck when the World refused to print columns on Sacco-Vanzetti. Bright exponent of "personal journalism," he demanded the right to write what he please. By contract obligations to the World he was helpless to write for newspapers...
...English language is a menagerie of words. Some of the words are as wild and terrible as brown bears, some are as sudden and delicate as gazelles; some, when they are led out of their cages to the pavilion of print, growl and mutter, roar like lions or bark like foxes. The word "tolerance" is a small blind rabbit creeping into a heap of refuse. "Evolution" is the word that many people find the most terrifying of any in the zoo. It is a huge sly creature with barrel chest and four foot arms. It has a flat skull...
...their handling of the Snyder-Gray murder, and the Hearst papers by their treatment of the Peaches Browning case. Nine-tenths of the putrid detail and the revolting accounts of the Snyder-Gray murder and the overtures of the amorous Browning ought never to have been put in public print...
...authentic documents regarding Mexican bribery of the U. S. press, all names and other possibilities of verification were blacked out when facsimilies appeared in Hearst papers. Mr. Hearst thus dodged his only chance to prove the truth of his "news", and by so doing to force reputable publications to print it or such facts about it as their investigators could assemble. Mr. Hearst published no justification for the dodge. TIME will glorify Hearst enterprise when it is justified...
...grateful; he never begged. Even newsboys gave him papers which he perused gravely. Griffo could not" read, but he liked the pictures. He could not even read the tattered bunch of clippings he kept back in the basement room. Someone had taught him to recognize his name in print...