Word: subeditor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Journalism and politics merged into one profession for "Tay Pay." Politics gave him his material, journalism his reputation. Leaving Ireland in 1870, he became subeditor of the London Daily Telegraph, was London correspondent for the New York Herald, Sun, Tribune. Ten years after his arrival in England he was in Parliament, and there he stayed. Founding political newspapers was his lifelong habit. Among them were the Star (still shining), the Sun (set), the Weekly Sun, M. A. P. (Mostly About People...
...International Newsreel Corp., a rebuke for supplying TIME with a photograph of the late Empress Alexandra labeled "Maria Feodorovna Russian Czarina B 8146." To an erring TIME subeditor, a thoroughgoing reprimand for not discovering that Dr. Adolf Koester was appointed German Minister to Latvia...
...college professors, various "green apples" lately laid before the "new" student-recent books on sociology, psychology, education, science, drama. Here, too, "good fellowship" is stressed. The scene is pastoral, the cost low, designed to suit "the overwhelming minority." Host Pratt, a recent Harvard graduate, is a subeditor and financial backer of the New Student; devotes his energies to stimulating a spirit of liberal criticism, free speech, international consciousness, among U. S. undergraduates...
...Story. The tired subeditor of the London Liberal, "that well known organ of the more depressing aspects of advanced thought," sneaks away for a lonely vacation from journalism and a noisy family. He and his flivver, by an accident only Einstein could fitly explain, crash right through the fourth dimension and into Utopia?where he finds a handful of other Earthlings, as bewildered as he at finding themselves translated to a new and perfect universe. The others include those whom Mr. Wells seems to regard as typical public nuisances of a modern civilization?a titled lady, pleasant, but futile...
...Clive. Infectious diseases have been so long stamped out in Utopia by the Utopian scientists that the mere arrival of the Earthlings sets up an epidemic. They are put in quarantine?and promptly start ambushing their hosts as a beginning of making Utopia safe for Democracy. Only the subeditor, Mr. Barnstaple, dissents fro'm the Earthling program of conquest and is nearly shot as a traitor by his fellows as a result. He escapes from them, after hair-breadth adventures?they are shot back violently to earth via Utopian wireless?and he remains in Utopia for some time, studying...