Word: press
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...they try 'em? Listen, the men won't pay a fine of more than five dollars; they'll fight it out and they know that if they're selling decent stuff that no New York jury would ever convict 'em. It's much cheaper for the 'feds' not to press the charge. Sure sounds funny to a guy that works in this g--state...
...have shown with their usual degree of luster, he has exhausted the store of his accomplishments. The full blossomed lot of pleasure has not been his during this last stretch of Saturdays. His coup detat, the carefully laid scheme to fly to Michigan, having been uncovered by the Yellow Press, he can reckon little for the credit side of his ledger...
...with only a muffled fanfare of trumpets from those most concerned, Harvard and Yale meet in football tomorrow afternoon. The eyes of the press, and through it, of the country, may be focussed on Cambridge; but for the two contestants, the days are gone when the football team rushed out in the guise of the College Militant. The fact that victory may be desirable, but that defeat does not necessarily blight the loser with shame, has gone through the stages of incredulity, to acceptance. With its acceptance has ceased meaningless antagonism between the universities. In its place stands...
...Walt Whitman", a brief biography of the poet by C. J. Furness, has just been issued by the Harvard University Press, as one of its November publications. The story of the poet during the last years of his life, and of his work, is covered briefly in one small volume...
Sometime within the next few weeks the Press hopes to issue "The Traditional Ballads of Virginia", edited by A. K. Davis. These ballads, which for years have been collected by the Virginia Folk Lore Society, have been edited carefully, music has been secured...