Word: newspaperman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Able Newspaperman McCullagh decided to get tough first with Toronto's Liberal Star (circ. 369,276), longtime rival of the Telegram, and Canada's biggest newspaper. The Star charged that the Telegram had lost its independence and that McCullagh was a front man "for outside influence and ownership." McCullagh snapped that the Telegram deal was his own. "That fellow Hindmarsh [Harry Comfort Hindmarsh, Star president]," he roared, ". . . is so ugly that if he ever bit himself he'd get hydrophobia...
...This meeting makes history," said Minister Vougt, a bluff, 53-year-old ex-newspaperman. "Never before has the joint study of northern defense reached such concrete form...
...Governor today?") and goes right down the line. No one smokes, because Freeman objects to the lingering odor (he dropped smoking years ago when he found that the buying, lighting, smoking and crushing out of cigarettes, "wasted" 8½ hours a week). Freeman also has a newspaperman's dislike of office whistlers. He will bolt from his chair, at the cost of precious seconds, to bawl out a whistling copy...
...Spirit of Peace. Yet even those who were prepared to sneer were strangely moved by Weizmann's homecoming. Half cynically and half devoutly, an Israeli newspaperman said: "After all, even Moses himself didn't make...
...sense, every newspaperman is bilingual. He speaks one language and often writes a quite different one. The dialect he writes is dictated by his paper's "style-book." As papers, like people, are crusty with peculiarities, the regional variations of this newspaper lingo have to be learned by the men who write it. Except on chains, no two papers' rules are ever quite the same...