Word: transcript
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cousin Harriet, here is the 'Boston Evening Transcript...
...very respectable Limerick about the consternation of the young lady from Back Bay who once threw a Transcript away expresses it exactly. The Boston Evening Transcript is a landmark and an institution, and as such not to be defiled. Its pages, which come from the press smelling more strongly of printers' ink than do those of other newspapers, exhale a reminiscent fragrance. They are an assurance that no traditional detail will over be lightly omitted, from the Alpha of the financial advertisement on page one, to the Omega of the obituaries. It is unthinkable that a silly girl should unreflectingly...
...details that the editors of the Transcript excel. They immure themselves in a citadel on Newspaper Row which has the flavor of Lamb's India House. There the crisp First National Bank efficiency which characterizes the Boston Herald is not to be found, nor yet the cinematic evidences of Fourth Estateliness which earmark the Boston American as Hearst's. In the crumbly, musty, sooty, comfortable rookery, of the Transcript there is something that reminds the Vagabond at once of Mark Twain, of Horace Greeley, and of Beacon Street. Such a milieu creates an atmosphere most favorable to the production...
...saving grace and surpassing virtue of the Transcript is its exquisite sense of humor. The London Times, an historian remarks, publishes documented correspondence on bugs, while the Boston Evening Transcript, as thoughtful and serious-minded as the Times, devotes a page to genealogy. When the Vagabond remembers this he is sure that the poet was too harsh and not at all penetrating when he wrote...
...others bringing the "Boston Evening Transcript...