Word: sob
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...performance of those fellows is a shameful and disgraceful one," said Hawaii's voteless delegate to Congress, Joseph R. Farrington, in a half sob of frustration last week. "What they're doing to us is a crime...
About Face. In Denver, Rocky Mountain News Sob Sister Molly Mayfield got an unanswerable letter from a correspondent named Eve: "After 34 years together, I'm beginning to dislike my husband . . . He has developed a marked resemblance to President Truman...
...Administration's most effective supporters among the working press. She hadn't said a word, but Truman demanded to know why she was looking at him like that. He asked the question with a force that shocked the newsmen. He asked if she wanted to run a sob-sister piece, and added that he didn't need any sob-sister pieces. Later, Reporter Fleeson said: "I wasn't aware that I was doing anything except sitting quietly trying to understand what was going on ... I thought I was looking pretty good...
Died. Dorothy Dix (Mrs. Elizabeth Meriwether Gilmer), 81, first and most famous newspaper dispenser of advice to the lovelorn; in New Orleans. Herself the victim of an unhappy marriage (her husband was stricken with a mental illness within a year of their marriage) and a pioneer sob sister (six years on the New Orleans Picayune, 16 on Hearst's New York Journal), she had a large stock of common sense bromides handy by the time she settled in New Orleans to give counsel to readers. As her column expanded to more than 200 newspapers, and brought her more than...
...DOPE ADDICT. It was the first of five chapters telling the sad story of pretty Peggy Ellsworth, 1947's "Miss Michigan," as told to Norma Lee Browning. Trib readers were accustomed to sad stories being told to Reporter Browning. As the Trib's star sob sister, she had masqueraded as a wayward girl, stranded in the city with no money (to measure the size of Chicago's heart), and submitted to phony medical treatment to expose quacks. In Cuba, she scored a beat by swiping the victim's diary in the Mee murder case (TIME...