Word: squibbing
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...Sinclair went to Yale. But at the beginning of his fourth year, he deserted college to become janitor for a socialistic Utopia called Helicon Hall which had just been founded in New Jersey by Upton Sinclair, radical novelist. Poor, Sinclair Lewis lived by writing children's verse and squib jokes for magazines until he obtained an assistant editorship on the now defunct monthly Transatlantic Tales. He left that position to seek another in the building of the Panama Canal but, failing that, returned obscurely to Yale for his degree. He became a newsgatherer first in New Haven, later elsewhere...
...document," unsigned, was said in London to be "a lark, a joke, a squib" perpetrated in 1919 by Samuel Kerkham Ratcliffe, British publicist, and "planted" on Shearer...
Modern, they read of "the late Discoveries and Improvements of Arts and Sciences. . . . Once there was War without Powder, Shot, Cannon or Mortars . . . the mob made bonfires without Squib . . . the Lover was forced to send his Mistress a Deal Board for a Love Letter...
...orders with their own hands, and days in the offices of friends, trying to raise money and postpone payments. William Crapo Durant, twice head of General Motors, left a room full of irritated financial patrons to eat apple pie, and, mouth full, to roar full-chested laughter at a squib...
...everyone over 40 knows and everyone who has ever attended a course on the drama can explain, this was a slashing play. Mrs. Dane was a fallen woman, and she lied about it?to preserve her place in suburban London society and to keep the young squib whom she loved. Such conduct was reprehensible, and the neighbors, including the ineffective young swain, felt obligated to expel her. Chastity went without saying in the '90's, until Playwright Henry Arthur Jones said several things about it defending Mrs. Dane. Reviews of the play were of two opinions. Older theatregoers remembered...