Word: weeding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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University of Rochester (Rochester, N. Y.) Herbert Edwin Hawkes, university dean (Columbia) LL.D. Thomas William Lamont, Morgan partner LL.D. Lewis Hill Weed, medical school dean (Johns Hopkins) D.Sc...
...stem" the evil, forestall the "space-grabbing attempts." Placed in active charge of the committee's work was Andrew Ford, onetime managing editor of the New York Telegram. With a corps of assistants he was to examine and investigate the publicity releases of should-be advertisers, to weed out the real news from the "hand-outs." After weeding, weekly warnings will be sent to all Association members, to all newspaperdom. Whenever possible, Weeder Ford will scotch unworthy publicity schemes at their sources. First a few "offenders" were singled out to be mentioned, and then the list grew and grew...
...shop became known as the Hole in the Wall, a title which many a small retailer has since appropriated. But many a hat came out of the hole and Hatter Knox soon moved to larger quarters. Among early Knox customers were Daniel Webster, Horace Greeley, James Gordon Bennet, Thurlow Weed, Henry Clay, Abraham Lincoln...
...there are innumerable unwashed and untempered psychoanalysts who have discredited the subjects of psychological analysis in the eyes of the scientific world by their vague and extravagant statements. As if in blissful ignorance of the nature of scientific testimony phantasms have been promulgated with generous abundancy. Undoubtedly amidst the weeds there are to be found some flowers, but there is no telling one from the other and so criticism mows them down weed and flower alike. Certainly this state of affairs is more a function of the analyst than of the subject matter; for we have here a legitimate realm...
Happily for all, Albany has managed to furnish at least one and sometimes two newspapers which could nestle securely against Dutch welcome mats. Such a newspaper was the Argus, which traced its beginnings back to 1813. Such a newspaper, in the evening field, was Thurlow Weed's famed Albany Evening Journal, staunch bulwark of Republicanism...