Word: ultra
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Both heads have sullen, stubborn ultra-turtlish expressions. The right head is bolder than the left. First to emerge from the sheltering shell after a fright is the right head. That head usually makes the first snatch at food. Food always causes a contention between the heads. One tries to pull food from the other. They tug until the fly, cricket, or scrap of meat tears apart...
...Daredevil pluck, ultra rapidity of thought and movement, cool calculation and reckless abandon, honor blended with determination- these are some of the demands and features of the great, clean national game. Through the long Dark Ages of serfdom, hurling remained with us as a bulwark second only to our national language in preserving our subdued and suppressed individuality...
...building and radio station WMAQ) earned $989,002.* But if the financial burdens of the News increased during Publisher Strong's regime, so did its editorial vigor. The paper lost none of its integrity or decency, but did become much brighter than in the days of the ultra-conservative Lawson. Horse race results, forbidden by Publisher Lawson, blossomed on the front page. A mid-week magazine, edited by dapper, energetic Charles Robert Douglas Hardy Andrews, was added to the Wednesday editions. A vigorous campaign against gangsters resulted in the closing of racketeer-owned dog tracks. Its enviable reputation...
...going for a fast ride." Editor Gauvreau is 39, lean, gimlet-eyed, hardboiled, literate. He walks with a limp, the result of "shellshock" suffered as a youngster when practical jokers set off a Fourth of July cannon under his bed room window. He was schooled on the ultra-conservative Hartford Courant, of which he was managing editor when he went to work for Macfadden. The Mirror had less than 400,000 circulation when he joined it. It has now about 600,000. In September Editor Gauvreau will inaugu rate a Sunday edition to compete with the Sunday News...
...anxious to clear the panorama of college journalism, while the denizens of Mt. Anburn Street, along with the Phi Beta Kappa members, will seek to show that tables can be turned. A contest between managers and batboys is planned for the near future, as the third contest on the ultra-amateur diamond...