Word: prose
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...make assurance doubly sure, posterity-minded Robert R. ("Bertie") McCormick, publisher of "the world's greatest newspaper," immolated select portions of his own prose (Freedom of the Press, What Is a Newspaper) inside the cornerstone of his Chicago Tribune's new radio station building on Michigan Avenue...
That cruel prophecy soon came true. Smart found a job with a bookseller who waxed rich on the profits he made from concoctions such as "Dr. Hooper's Female Pills." Smart became his hack, churning out for him a flow of trite but salable verse and prose. Then Smart's high-strung system collapsed. He took to interpreting literally Christ's "injunction to pray without ceasing"-and pray Smart did, whenever he was moved to do so, whether in public places or in the small hours of the morning, summoning those near him to do likewise...
...department that the New York Post (see above), like most newspapers, had neglected to sensationalize was its' real-estate section. Last week the Post contributed a prize example of the kind of prose that is as overcrowded and badly constructed as a slum tenement...
...about $100,000 a year. In the six months since Lonesome Gal has become a recorded, nationwide show, it has found' sponsors for its beery sentimentality on all but one of its 57 stations; appropriately, most of the sponsors are brewers. But in writing her own purple-prose commercials, Jean tries not to offend teetotalers : "After all, beer is here. I try to explain it as a wonderful refreshment-people don't have to become gluttons...
...Queen's daughters at her birthday party, Tupper sent the lines by return mail. His practice of sending poems to the newspapers was not mere exhibitionism. It was also public relations for his magnum opus, Proverbial Philosophy, a galaxy of truisms dressed up in a slipslop rhythmic prose...