Word: professionals
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Perhaps the niceties of the profession are to be found nowhere to better advantage than in the function of timekeeper. Too frequent calling of the hour has a tendency to create unfortunate emotional situations in the examinees and a mere announcement as the period draws to a close that "this...
After the revolution in 1911, oldtimers told me, the profession fell upon evil days and two handed chopping such as you describe took the place of the neat, single-handed slicing with the result that often two and three blows were needed to complete the matter.
"If any one of the newspaper reporters is called on to testify before the com mittee as to the sources of his information, then, in accordance with the so-called ethics of that so-called profession, he will decline to say where he got his information and I, for one...
Senator Reed, through his Secretary Huntley, sent a conciliatory message to the Press Gallery inviting correspondents to meet him for a discussion of "newspaper ethics ... to swap viewpoints." Fifty newsmen signed a retort that they would not confer with him, that they preferred to hear this "thoughts on newspaper ethics...
It is little short of astonishing that a man belonging to a profession usually considered to represent the sternest of realism should have fallen for the vagaries of the "right crowd". Perhaps the boys at Technology have not had time to frequent the polished dance halls of Back Bay and...