Word: pressroom
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...White House pressroom a telephone jangled disturbingly. Over the wire came a warning voice: "You guys be ready for a hot story at 2 o'clock." Five minutes later newsmen, looking across the White House lawn, observed a strange movement out on Pennsylvania Avenue. They hurried out to find 35 very young men and women and one big Negro marching solemnly up and down under the leafless trees. Behind them flocked a curious crowd. With difficulty their youthful hands held aloft heavy placards...
...call it. Mr. Walkley once said of Pavlowa that she was not like flame and wind, but that flame and wind were like her. I wish I had time to think of something equally classic to remark about the dancing of Miss Moss. But, as the foreman of the pressroom, has just reminded me. I am not, at present, writing for "The Atlantic Monthly," and I shall have to postpone a record of my enjoyment of Miss Moss's iridescent and bubble dancing until some time in the hereafter...
...FRONT PAGE?"Goose him," "can." "fairy" and similar pressroom technicalities add to the speed of a dazzling play (TIME, June...
...FRONT PAGE-Pressroom profanity occasioned by a jailbreak (TIME, June...
Grimy pressmen will look up from their work in printing plants across the country in these next three months to see a neatly dressed stranger peering at them. If they can hear his comments above the thrash & roar of pressroom operation, they will be conscious of a precise English accent...