Word: slammings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...correspondent for the Baltimore Sun, in which Pundit Kent's "Great Game of Politics" (column) appears daily and of which he is vice president. He delineates the technology of politics. He has done a history of the Democratic party, f He can applaud as well as he can slam and bang. And he can sympathize because once he knew the life of active politics himself. In 1922 all was arranged for him to have the Senate seat which Maryland's bumbling Bruce now occupies. Pundit Kent turned it down but only, they say, because he felt he could...
...then again, in your review of Gdal Staleski's book [TIME, April 9, p 32] you just couldn't resist the temptation to try to slam the Jews. You mention a list of Jewish composers among them Ravel, Mendelssohn, Rubinstein, Saint-Saens, and Bloch. Very fine and good. But you clever editors must have your say. A little note does the trick! So you lightly dismiss the Jewish composers with "But Beethoven, Wagner, Strauss, Tschaikowsky, etc., etc., vere Gentiles." Your entire attitude is nothing short of insulting to the intelligence of your readers. It is 100% befitting vacuocaputs...
...History of "Slam, Dutch East Indies and Indo China up to 1800," Professor Hornbeck, Harvard...
...click-clack ("snoogins") to cry out "Deliver!" on a triple slam...
...everyone whom the New Yorker criticized sued the magazine it would be blessed with untold press notices and hounded with several hundred warrants. Most metropolitan actors and authors, and even some metropolitan architects, consider one slam in the New Yorker worth two favorable notices in less fashionable journals, for standards of criticism vary and what brings comment from Dorothy Parker and her playmates usually becomes the season's rage. Mr. Severance should not take offence--he should not even take $500,000. If he were to go to the corner of Fifth Avenue and Forty Fourth Street tomorrow, he would...