Word: spacing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Three Inches. A few days later, Aviatrix Amelia Earhart, who is tabloided as "Lady Lindy," did a somersault in the mud at Curtiss Field, Long Island, while attempting to land her plane. This received space averaging three inches in the same newspaper which had made the Lindbergh-Morrow flop story...
...figures. The fact that the rooms available for the use of the class meetings, apart from those set aside for special uses in the various laboratories and museums, are used up to nearly 100 percent capacity during the morning hours, reveals the fact that additions to the available space must be made in some way in the near future...
...Star, first of all Washington newsgatherers to make a serious enterprise, under McKinley, of "covering" the President. All newsmen have long since been banished from the inner White House. Until Roosevelt's time, the President's executive offices were up the three steps, filling all second-story space over the East Room. The East Room's extra height elevates the second floor here, thus lowering the sills of the upstairs windows and necessitating window bars for safety...
...newspaper or a publisher of high standing made such a gesture it would have been white-hot news. When Publisher Bonfils did it, and splashed the telegram as "news" on the Post's dizzying front page, it received about as much space in other newspapers as if somebody had shipped another raccoon to the White House...
Recently the Metropolitan Museum announced an auction sale of paintings no longer deemed worthy of wall space. Last week the euphemistically-termed "surplus" art was sold. The highest price was $3,500, paid by Circusman John Ringling for Hans Makart's Diana's Hunting Party, a giant canvas (15 by 32 feet), garish and breezy as a circus poster. This will hang in Mr. Ringling's sunny, spacious museum at Sarasota, Fla. For more than 100 pieces the museum received $53,442. Meticulous connoisseurs called it sheer profit, good riddance...