Word: lowdown
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...undoubtedly the people's choice for musical programs. When he has no programs to announce, he has to sit watch in an empty studio, waste his vast voice every 15 minutes or so saying "WJZ, New York" during station breaks. For these exalted and lowdown services, his basic studio salary, after 18 years, is about $80 a week. Commercial jobs pay much more, but Milton Cross's extreme unction is unsuited to most commercial shows, which usually require more extraverted talent...
Nearly a year ago Esquire's smart Publisher David Smart and Editor Arnold Gingrich set out on an eight months' job of launching a new magazine. It was to be a semimonthly, called Ken, and was to give the public the "lowdown" on world events as "insiders" see them. Last week, about four months late, some 500,000 copies of Ken were finally being whirled off the presses...
...prominent journalists working in France were permitted to read what was supposed to be the entire report of the French Secret Service on what happened in Addis Ababa following the bomb attack on Italian Viceroy Rodolfo Graziani (TIME, March 1). This may or may not have been the real "lowdown," but it made interesting reading and is typical of French finesse in acquiring the goodwill of top-grade foreign correspondents by giving them a peep to ease their heroic curiosity...
Summarized, the French lowdown on Addis Ababa last week was that a slanting tin roof made a great deal of difference. Had not Viceroy Graziani & Staff been standing under its eaves, the five bombs, all inexpertly "thrown high" by Ethiopians, would not have glanced and rolled off to a short distance. They gave the Viceroy 38 body wounds but they killed numbers of Ethiopians and would infallibly have killed Graziani & Staff had the tin roof not been there. The Chief of Italy's East African Air Force General Aurelio Liotta not only had to have a leg amputated...
...editor, suggesting a denial be printed of rumors circulating on the Stock Exchange that another mild epileptic "falling fit" had been suffered by His Majesty. This denial, since it came virtually from the honest King-Emperor himself, could be accepted as the nearest thing possible to the lowdown on a matter of utmost interest to British businessmen in view of the approaching Coronation in which they have so many millions at stake. But between the business-like King-Emperor and his business subjects, stand the Gentlemen of England. The printed denial in Cavalcade was pounced upon, its excision forced...