Word: print
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There followed a signal drill. It is axiomatic, almost, that each day's signal will be described in the public print as "spirited," and the adjective had lost a good deal of whatever meaning it started out with. But yesterday's session actually had a kind of fire, a handy attribute since the field gets frigid after 5 o'clock...
...alert-as courts are-to the changing meanings of words. "Racket," which once meant a mere trick-and was not libelous-now means an illegal business-and may be. The greatest danger, Wittenberg points out, is that newspapers, with no ready means of checking many of the stories they print, must rely on the accuracy of the wire services and news syndicates. Yet in 47 states (only Florida excepted), newspapers cannot avoid libel suits by blaming news services for mistakes. Wittenberg thinks a change is due, along the lines of a 1932 Florida decision, which ruled that complexities of modern...
...Street, off bombed-out Fetter Lane, stands a terraced architectural absurdity known as Geraldine House. It is the home of the world's first great tabloid-and still its biggest. Every weekday, 3,700,954 London Daily Mirrors pour from the presses of Geraldine House; every weekend they print 4,006,241 Sunday Pictorials. Each Mirror reflects the tabloid wizardry of Humpty-Dumptyish Harry Guy Bartholomew, who is as retiring as his paper is blatant...
When they found time, the painters published a magazine-El Machete-to express their violent view of the world, and to print their drawings. "Orozco used to eat a priest for breakfast every morning," says Siqueiros. "He drew some very powerful anti-church cartoons for us. . . . Once I met a tough old lady warrior who had been a colonel in Zapata's army. She was also anticlerical so I brought her around to meet Orozco. Foolishly, I left them alone for a couple of minutes. When I came back she had Orozco by the hair and he was kicking...
...Robinson opus, entitled "Untriangulated Stars--Letters of Edwin Arlington Robinson to Harry De Forest Smith," contains a collection of letters, none of which has ever appeared in print before, written by the poet from 1890 to 1905. The work was edited by Denham Sutcliffe...