Word: seene
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...third newsgathering day, he was sent to interview one Lillie Anderson, just arrested on her 24th intoxication charge. After giving dry advice to Drinker Anderson, Newsman Upshaw went back and wrote his story. It was headlined: BOOZE PARTIES LED LIL ASTRAY UPSHAW LEARNS. Personally, Newsman Upshaw has seen no booze parties in Manhattan. "New York is a city of great rectitude," he explained. "I'd heard so much about the wickedness of it before I came here this time that I was greatly interested to see what truth there was in it. Why, I haven't seen...
Henderson (sweetly, provoking roars of laughter on all sides of the House): Lord Lloyd told me he had seen Mr. Churchill...
Asked about Marshal Chang Hsueh-liang-son of his old employer, Marshal Chang Tso-lin-General Sutton meaningly said: "His qualities as a strategist remain to be seen. If they are anything like his father's Russia will not find victory so easy to attain...
...circulating Liberty when it was founded in 1924. Later he was given the general managership. That meant supervising the sale of white-space as well as newsstand sales. Manager Annenberg drove into the job. Than Liberty's advertising sales-methods nothing more high-powered has ever been seen in the business. But advertising men are different from newsdealers. They must be coaxed, cannot be driven. Somehow, Liberty's advertising did not keep pace with its readership. "Trick" layouts, a special testimonial issue, salesman's "thermometers" in the office and other features of the hard-driving Annenberg technique...
Perhaps the best indication of the change can be seen in the shift of the spotlight from pitchers to batters. Once upon a time small boys wanted to grow up and be like Pitchers Christy Mathewson and Walter Johnson. Now they want to grow up and be like Hitters George Herman ("Babe") Ruth or Rogers Hornsby...