Word: newspapermen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Theodore Roosevelt, Governor of Porto Rico and (selfstyled) "ambassador to the Caribbean," gets help from newspapermen on the tyro Spanish in which, with dogged goodwill, he addresses his charges when- ever he can. Last week one newspaperman could not forbear to relay to the U. S. two of the Governor's better "breaks" in recent Spanish-speeches...
...produced one thin official volume, October and other poems. Unlike the late great Laureate Tennyson, he has refused to vamp up verses for patriotic occasions and royal birthdays. When he visited the U. S. in 1924 and refused to commemorate the event in rhyme, a Manhattan tabloid carried what newspapermen call the classic headline of all time: KING'S CANARY WILL NOT CHIRP...
When it became known that the basis of Fall's appeal would be alleged "forcing" of the verdict by Jury Foreman Thomas E. Norris, as exemplified by the Movietone juror story, newspapermen interviewed Mrs. Fall last week at El Paso, Tex. Elaborating on her Movietone revelation, she said: "The verdict was returned not out of the conviction of twelve men and women, but of only three, who forced the others to accede to their decision. . . . Daniel Weisbach told me that during the jury deliberation he paced the floor in agony of mind and heart, trying to stop his ears...
...Klein told his reasons to the American Press (newspaper trade journal). Said he: "Newspapering is a young man's game. . . . And a newspaperman is young only as long as he can successfully kid himself. I kidded myself because I kept on thinking smugly that I was Somebody. . . . [ Manhattan newspapermen] love to come into the office of a morning to remark. -met Noel Coward at Condé Nast's roof party last night and Noel tells me -.' Or, '- So John D. Jr., was standing in the stern of Vincent Astor's yacht...
Concluded Advertisingman Klein: "A newspaperman's training-his 'deadline' habit of thinking on his feet-will get him further in a money way in advertising. . . . And why not, brethren? Ask your wives. These newspapermen's wives- almost always superior in brains and breeding to their old school friends riding around in Cadillacs and Studebakers-will tell you that the boys are just trying to believe they're still living in the glamorous...