Word: scribe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...scribe who pounds out the ironic, smile-provoking reviews of the celluloid strips tripped a bit in his discussion of that stupendous inanity billed as She [TIME, July 22]. I fidgeted through one showing of this insult to my imagination, but was attentive enough to notice that the gentleman preserved in ice "like a lamb chop in aspic'' was not John Vincey, but his valiant servant who had had a terrific encounter with a sabre-toothed monster. John Vincey, on the other hand, was miraculously preserved on a very uncomfortable looking slab, only to be unceremoniously consumed...
...field runs. The burning question is: "Are Kuziora and Moseley going to play?" Only a few days ago TIME OUT had the temerity to take Holy Cross at its word and say that Kuziora was definitely out of the game. But Io and behold, since that time some enterprising scribe stated that the Erie, Pa. lad was ready to go. TIME OUT was taken to task for his rashness but he can only say that when a man is reported with a separated collar bone, the chances of his playing football are no stronger than a toothpick...
...calling himself "Brogan the Scribe," and by patronizing an unknown publisher, the author of the "Outline of Heaven" has probably furnished his work with an insuperable handicap. That was all very unnecessary, and it makes one doubt the good sense of the writer, for the book is in other regards quite a commonplace and respectable offering. It is an imaginative, but never too imaginative, account of heaven. Like all accounts of heaven it presents the famous rogues and scoundrels who might conceivably be found in heaven, all of whom, as usual, appear a little stiff and formal and uncomfortable under...
...Boston are not justified. The word "crusty" is certainly out of order. The man is old and has different opinions but that's not being crusty, that's being different. The word crusty is nothing but a dirty slam put into an article by some very ignorant scribe of your wonderful TIME. You can rest assured that when our subscription to TIME runs out it will not be renewed. You would do well to apologize through your columns to His Eminence Cardinal O'Connell...
...idea of renting pictures is by no means original with Scribe Woollcott. Several years ago a number of dealers organized a sort of picture-a-month club to rent good pictures to subscribers with little wall space, rental fees to be applied on the purchase of any picture the subscriber particularly admired. The idea fell through because shipping and insurance costs wiped out the dealers' profit, damage in transshipment estranged artists. Several modern galleries are willing to rent pictures to people anxious to beautify hotel suites for a few months, or to persons of fickle taste like Mr. Woollcott...