Word: scribes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When George Herman Ruth was seriously ill in a hospital, his signed stories continued to appear daily. Mr. Broun advances an explanation that had been given him by famed Sports-scribe W. O. McGeehan: "That the Babe escaped from his cot each night by means of a rope made of knotted sheets and staggered to the telegraph office with his copy...
Schmeling. Max Siegfried Adolf Otto Schmeling would be a long name to in scribe on the Tunney-Muldoon trophy which indicates the championship of the world. But Herr Schmeling, who is as soft-spoken as Tunney and as agreeable as Carpentier, would not object to his three middle names being left out. He it was about whom the long, loud, prefight ballyhoo was mostly centred last week, for he it is who is dempseyesque...
WRITTEN by a reporter of the Chicago Daily News and the Chicago Evening American, this latest of novels on the life of a modern scribe has very little to recommend it. The story starts nowhere, gets now-where. The style is tabloid, frequently illustrated with actual newspaper stories of the most Moronic cast. Attempting, evidently, to give an impressionistic picture of the emotions of a rather sensitive reporter in the pay of a sensation-trusting city staff, the book falls short of the mark, and this despite the inclusion of various little novelties, the use of actual newspaper heads...
Newsman Steele concluded: "In the interest of Anglo-American amity it is hoped that Tunney does not carry out his intention of winding his cane about the neck of some persistent scribe, because the English are peculiar about such little matters, and likely would send Mr. Tunney to the jug, ex-champion or no ex-champion, Lauder millions or no Lauder millions.* And that would be some story...
Amusing is the tale of how Scribe Mussolini, unused to doing such long pieces, wearied of his novel and threatened to kill off Claudia with intent to bring the Romanzo to a close. "For Heaven's sake, don't!" Editor Battisti would cry. "The subscriptions are being renewed splendidly...