Word: subeditor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From his publisher's standpoint Mr. Vivian Tidmarsh was hero of the day. Mr. Tidmarsh, subeditor on the Evening News, showed that his office had learned of Alice Puddifoot's vindication just in time to slip a few lines into the "stop-press" corner of the last edition. The Evening News got off with only one farthing damages...
...unfortunate phrasing here. Mr. Bouton, writing hurriedly, used two words, 'ruthlessness' and 'brutality' in attempting to rehearse the strong virtues which historians attribute to Loyola. These words were badly chosen and are not in accord with the prevailing historical opinion. His error should have been deleted by the subeditor who prepared the article for publication, but again there was a lapse and the words got into the paper. The inadvertence was and is regretted...
...acquired a goat, a drake, a rook, a Blue Angora cat, and eventually two very large sows. In spite of his friendship with John Galsworthy and his admiration for George Moore, England finally became too depressing; he expatriated himself to Paris. There, with Ernest Hemingway as his sanest subeditor, the encouragement of Ezra Pound and Gertrude Stein, and with the backing of the late U. S. backer, John Quinn. he started the transatlantic review. A helpful man, he was much put upon by the polyglot bohemians. He once made an appointment at the British Embassy for Baroness Elsa von Freytag...
...reminiscences which Lord Tilbury yearns to publish, and whose Empress has lately been nobbled (kidnapped) and is by way of being nobbled again. Which is why Lord Tilbury is seized by his beefy scruff and thrust into a dark and dirty shed. And why young Monty Bodkin, his discharged subeditor, regains employment with His Lordship. And why, since the ms. of the racy reminiscences is the other jewel of the plot, the Empress ultimately makes a meal of said ms. and, one complication having thus consumed another, the agreeable young people involved (the other young man is Ronnie Fish...
Newsmen asked one another what had happened, could only guess at the answer. Perhaps some unlucky subeditor had blundered. Or perhaps the Star, unable to transform so many big snakes into other animals, decided in editorial conference that it could ill afford to drop out its ace comic, the Bungles, for even one Sunday. Or perhaps Publisher Longan suddenly and completely recovered from his snake-phobia...