Word: wroth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since each item is the work of an individual press, variety is the keynote of the whole, and there are several instances of remarkable ingenuity in the adaption of format and typographic technique to the spirit of the text. The rendering of Lawrence Wroth's capable essay on Juan Ortiz, the first wood engraver to practice his are on the American continent, by the Southworth. Press is particularly apt in this respect...
Three weeks ago, when President Hoover accepted the Republican nomination for the Presidency, few people were surprised or shocked to see the Marine Band on hand as usual. But the American Federation of Musicians waxed wroth. Citing Section 35 of the National Defense Act which forbids devoting any part of the Army or Navy to private uses, the A. F. of M.'s president Joseph Nicholas Weber wrote to Secretary of the Navy Charles Francis Adams protesting against the band's accompanying Herbert Hoover to a purely political meeting. Previous Presidents had drawn "sharp distinctions between the official...
Wanted: An Apology. When President Hoover read this statement in his morning newspaper, he was wroth indeed. He gave his temper nine hours to cool. Then he issued to the Press an answer, a challenge and a demand to the Navy League. Excerpt...
...Very wroth was the New York Herald Tribune in February when the New York Times quoted Publisher Herbert Pulitzer as saying "high-class papers like the Times," instead of what he did say: ". . . like the Times and Herald Tribune" (TIME, March 9). Last week the Herald Tribune evened the score. It reported at length the vote of Princeton seniors for favorite play, favorite film, favorite poem, etc. etc. But it did not report the students' favorite newspapers which were 1) Times, 2) Herald Tribune, 3) Chicago Tribune. Even the Herald Tribune's own Colyumist FPAdams remarked next...
...Angeles. Mr. Vanderbilt stated that it was he who had supplied the rambunctious General with the anecdote of Il Duce's alleged hit & run motor drive, for relating which the General was reprimanded by the Navy Department (TIME, Feb. 9; 16). But the imaginative young publicist was very wroth because General Butler "took a story of mine, twisted it around to score a point for himself, and made me the goat." Mr. Vanderbilt then gave newsmen the "real truth": "I was riding with Mussolini, who drove. A small child ran in front of the machine...