Word: printings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Young though it is among the arts, sciences and sports, aviation already has its own vocabulary, traditions, legends and songs. Pilots' slang and customs are fairly familiar to fiction readers and cinemaddicts. But songs of flying, unlike cowboys' and sailors' songs, have never been collected in print. In the May-June issue of Sportsman Pilot, out last week, appeared the beginning of an anthology of flying songs. First contributions came from John C. Haddock, Pennsylvania mining engineer and sportsman pilot. Pilot Haddock recalled a chantey by which student aviators in the Navy were taught the rudiments...
...fish cakes. Once in a great while he would wander into the office of New York Evening Post, invariably stopping at the cigar stand in the lobby to buy a copy of his paper for 3?. As diffidently as an old man who wanted to ask the editor to print a letter about the flower beds in Central Park, he would venture through the editorial offices, exchanging nods with reporters whose names he did not know, looking grateful for their recognition. Hardly ever did he go up to his penthouse on the roof of the Post building in which...
...interpretation of the ruling which bars from the mails news of lottery and sweepstake winnings. Said he: ''The only publicity I would object to would be outright advertisement of the lotteries. The law says we can't have that. The papers can go ahead, though, and print all the news there is about the poor chambermaid or the unemployed coal miner who bought a ticket for a shilling or two and won $1,000,000 in cash money. I think that is a great story always and if it is going to impair our morals to know...
...notice you delete profanity from letters, and then print the letters, as profane as in their original state. Perhaps you will discover obscenity in this: I don't know your methods of discovery. If unacceptable, you might be kind enough to forward this to the M. Bernheim...
...denied Jacob Itzkowitz's application, launched a brisk denunciation of C. C. N. Y. as a place where the taxpayers, "the orderly and decent element, are educating a bunch of young Communists and Socialists." At once C. C. N. Y.'s president, alumni and friends burst into print, flaying Justice Russell for an impertinent flouter. Later a Supreme Court Justice granted the name-change, rebuked Justice Russell. Justice Russell, rebuked, said that investigation had convinced him C. C. N. Y.'s "bunch" was "but a minority," thanked C. C. N. Y.'s faculty for "the temperate...