Word: printers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When Manhattan lawyers were no longer permitted or willing to enter the case of John Peter Zenger in 1735, an eminent Philadelphian named Andrew Hamilton was called in to defend Printer Zenger on charges of seditious libel of New York's Governor. Indignation which importation of a Philadelphia lawyer created among Manhattan burghers quickly changed to admiration, however, when Lawyer Hamilton's brilliant defense secured Printer Zenger's acquittal, established freedom of the U. S. Press. Also established was the folk-usage of "Philadelphia lawyer" as a synonym for shrewdness...
...East Hamilton Street for their copies of Along the Riviera, they found that no such publishing firm existed, soon learned that the book was no chronique scandaleuse of Baltimore's most famed ex-resident, but only a figment in the mind of an eccentric printer. With his small press it is Louis MacKenzie Turner's hobby to set up and print the title pages of imaginary books, which he then distributes as a genial hoax around Baltimore...
...Budapest, surgeons operated on Printer's Apprentice Gyoergyi Szabo, 17, who, brooding over the loss of a sweetheart, had set up her name in type, swallowed the type...
...Springs, Calif., Cinemactress Shirley Temple, 7, played Ping-Pong and shuffleboard with him, became engrossed in pro longed conversation, afterwards reported: "We were talking politics." Irked since he first spotted the Harvard University seal displayed on the Rhode Island State House library ceiling among the seals of 16 renowned printers, Gover nor Theodore Francis ("Teddy") Green, Brown & Harvard Law School graduate, had the Harvard seal removed, substituted the seal of William Caxton, first English printer...
...errors have been made in the book, due to the fact that the printer was rushed to publish the book by November 25. Any further mistakes should be reported to the Chairman of the Red Book Board...