Word: pundits
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...figurehead is President Hearst Jr. Ten hours at his desk is no long day for him. Seriously a journalist, ambitious, he dislikes Manhattan but wants to make a success of his job. No less a pundit than Herbert Bayard Swope, onetime chief of the New York World, is said to have boomed at Songwriter Irving Berlin of Hearst Jr.: "He is the most promising young man who has come into the profession of journalism during my lifetime...
Before James McKeen Cattell became a journalist* and a pundit honored among the cognoscenti, he was a teaching psychologist at Pennsylvania and Columbia universities. Apt was his presidency of the International Congress of Psychology at Yale last week and witty, despite length, his speech of welcome. Said he: "In so far as psychologists are concerned, America was [prior to the last 50 years] like Heaven, for there was not a damned soul there." Another Cattell truism: ''The motions of the solar system since its beginning are less complicated than the play of a child for a day." A Cattell social...
...more to say when he read adverse criticisms of Night, his newly-unveiled ornament on the London Underground office building. One pundit had observed...
...King, to have a talk with President Hoover (see p. 11). It is also official that Edward Price Bell, dean of the foreign staff of the Chicago Daily News, had "sold" the idea, first to Prime Minister King, then to Mr. MacDonald. Among journalists, Edward Price Bell is a Pundit, not only a writer and interpreter but also a molder, a creator of news. He is heir to the dream of the late, great Victor Fremont Lawson, builder of the Chicago Daily News, who 30 years ago conceived a worldwide foreign service which was to be "the handmaiden of state...
...Chevy one time and blew the horn until the manager got a cop. Guess he was afraid of another riot. We students just don't have any riots. Didye get that one? It's a good pun. Well, even Kitty says puns are O. K. and he's a pundit. All right. I'll shut...