Word: sayed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...coming out of chimneys and people walking around, and I can't believe it. Think of seeing my son. Do you know, the nurses had to tell me what things were. I would ask: 'What is the long, pointed thing out there?' and the nurse would say, 'That's a church steeple.' I've been going to church all my life and didn't know a church steeple...
...best book (The Green Bay Tree). Accurately New England was his Pulitzer Prize novel (Early Autumn). Awake and Rehearse includes a third sort of American, the Henry James-Edith Wharton expatriate variety. Bubbling over with abundance of "material," Author Bromfield has been praised for having much to say, blamed for saying it hastily in slovenly prose. This time he says less, says it better. Awake and Rehearse is a macabre title for a group of 13 stories (four are new; nine have appeared in magazines), each of which concerns death in the form of a corpse...
...Heart of Maryland. . . . One adoring saint on the right is holding a violin . . . another is holding a baby that looks rather like another violin. . . . Although he calls them music and they were designed for the walls of a music room, there is nowhere visible a melodic line. . . . Let us say that it is a fairly good uprooted modern musical chord slurred and fumbled by a maestro who partook of too many cocktails the previous night...
...newspaper influenced in its news or editorial policy by the special interests of its owners has, to say the least, an uphill job to be successful, and the International would not be willing to make any investment under any circumstances in any newspaper if it did not feel that the investment in itself was wise and profitable." All told, International holds over $10,000.000 of newspaper securities: Boston Herald and Traveler: 10,248 shares (50%) of the common stock bought for $5,380,200. According to a trust agreement this stock is not voted by International. Brooklyn Daily Eagle...
After each had had his say, the most dramatic contribution to the controversy was yet to come. Owner of four newspapers into which I. P. & P. had bought its way is able Frank Ernest Gannett, publisher of 17 chainpapers,−father of-the Teletypesetter (TIME, Jan. 14). When Mr. Graustein completed his testimony before the Commission, Mr. Gannett called it "in the main, admirable," explained more fully his deals with I. P. & P. Last week, with a sudden and theatrical gesture, he canceled the deals, freed his papers from the menace of the "Power Trust." He wrote Mr. Graustein...