Word: squibs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Then we dash off some little twirp of a squib that we're almost ashamed to print and we please or antagonize our clientele no end. You never know...
Twenty years ago a squib on the radio page of the old New York Evening World noted that "the story of a cloak-and-suit operator's climb from a dingy tenement to Park Avenue will be dramatized in the Rise of the Goldbergs . . ." With that feeble trumpet toot, the Goldberg family was off on a career that has included a run of 17 consecutive years on radio (only Amos 'n' Andy has run longer), a Broadway play and road company, a comic strip, vaudeville sketches and a television show...
...garish, picture-strewn Sunday News of the World, but at least 20 times the influence. The sedate, 157-year-old Observer is only six years the junior of the hoary London Times,* and proud of its past. It missed the boat by giving the battle of Trafalgar a scant squib, but scooped the town on the outbreak of the Crimean War. In 1820 it broke the law by printing news of a trial before it was over. Fined ?500, the paper refused to pay; the law was soon forgotten...
...your issue of Dec. 29 is a little squib about Standard Oil's famous oldtimer, Sprague...
...announcing last month that he had built a bonfire of his political records, "Cactus Jack" relented and gave the University of Texas 34 scrapbooks he had preserved. Thirty contained old newspaper clips, but four were a treasure house of place cards, menus, invitations to luncheons, plus a daily social squib in Mrs. Garner's own hand...