Word: publicize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tomorrow at eleven!" Yet from the man whom his college classmates knew as "Galloper" Smith, from the man who was the youngest Lord High Chancellor of Britain's UTILITARIAN BIRKENHEAD . . . went to see his boss. history, who has been Secretary of State for India, and now is a great public utility tycoon-in short, from the Earl of Birkenhead, it was the gesture of a genius who would not truckle to vulgar respectability...
British nudists, British dress reformers and advocates of a brighter London were startled and encouraged last week when peppery George Lansbury, white-whiskered First Commissioner of Public Works, announced himself in favor of nude sun bathing in London parks...
Called by romantic French reporters Le Grand Inquisiteur, and Le Sherlock Holmes Parisien, M. Bayle played in real life that familiar character of all good murder mysteries, the scientific detective. Appearing seldom in public, he spent all his working hours in his laboratory squinting through microscopes, blinking at sputtering X-ray lamps, scrutinizing bloodstains. Elaborately indexed in his bureau were the record cards of nine million criminals, five million Bertillon photographs, a halfmillion fingerprints...
...educated man runs to fraud," he once said, "while the uneducated person is more given to crimes of brutality and passion. The crime that interests me the most does not interest the public; for me, I love to unravel a really clever fraud...
...mail carriers. But not all the expenses. Said Universal Air Lines' Halsey Dunwoody, referring to this financial situation: "We cannot continue to pay operating expenses from capital reserve. In order to produce dividends, air transport lines must pay. We operators face certain definite needs which may be enumerated as public confidence, increased patronage, constantly improving service and better practical organization...