Word: newsstand
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...thought that the new Dodge truck plant, world's largest, could be transformed overnight to produce shells, cannon or airplanes. Detroit editors differed with their tycoons: they believed European war inescapable, U. S. participation almost obligatory. Men-in-the-street did not yet take the situation personally, but newsstand sales were far above normal on crisis days...
...Digest is believed to have paid Curtis about $20,000 a year), but their contract would definitely not be renewed. Asked for a reason, he replied: "Figure it out for yourself." Best figuring: independent-minded Post Editor Wesley Winans Stout sees no reason for selling ammunition to an important newsstand rival...
...herself. ("Off with you," she tells the oglers, "or I'll knock the Holy Jesus out of you.") At the same time, "deep down May was an aristocrat, a lady." She proves it by marrying handsome, good-for-nothing Mike Flavin, who takes her to Manhattan, buys a newsstand, leaves her to carry on while he drinks, chases women, finally stabs a man over a "maniac beauty" and skips for good. And although by this time May has six children, she can still say: "Ain't life funny and grand?" Her oldest son turns gangster, is killed. Three...
What was modestly termed "your germ of laughter, your dash of tabasco and wit that will enable you to swallow your crumbs along with your oysters," was made available to an enthralled body of newsstand patrons yesterday afternoon...
...Kansas City, Mo., Sergeant William Simpson and Detective C. R. Wagner, leafing through a detective magazine at a newsstand, looked up from the picture of a wanted man into his face, arrested...