Word: toed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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"We doubt if we ever changed anybody's opinion about anything . . . Perhaps people modify or intensify or otherwise alter their opinions by something someone else has said or written, but basically opinions are like fingerprints: they never change, and no two are precisely alike in every respect. The height...
"Many things operate to keep an editorial writer's opinion of himself in proper perspective. He can never be sure of himself, for while he may write his heart out about something that really matters without attracting the least attention, let him mention some trifling subject like pumpkin pie...
"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."
To prove that its shocking picture of the electrocution of Gunman James Morelli three weeks ago was no fake, the Chicago Herald-American last week uncorked a full page of photos explaining how the trick was done. As pressroom gossips had suspected, Herald-American Photographer Joe Migon had pulled back...
The pleasantly dissonant tuning up and chatter stopped in mid-note as the grey-haired man in the tan sport coat walked briskly across the stage to the podium. For a few silent moments his glance flickered over the musicians of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, his shale-blue eyes and...