Word: print
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...sorry that my informal talk seems to have created the impression that I consider myself important. I really do not. In print, some of the remarks about and attributed to me appear in doubtful taste...
Marine Corps humor is also traditional, and the items fit for print are oddly in the Punch tradition, generally told with an air of we-were-gathered-over-the-cigars-and-claret. Once the Corps adopts a joke or limerick, its form is rarely changed, hangs on through generations. Typical toast...
Carnegie Hall, full of 50th-anniversary feelings, rocked to its foundations. Even the Negro elevator operator felt that his name had been scandalized. Not since Critic Paul Rosenfeld made some vulgar reference to God giving a "positively farewell" recital on the trombone had anything so irreverent been seen in print. Herald Tribune readers...
...thinking was controlled by buried childhood memories. Surrealism was not yet fashionable. But writers like James Joyce and Gertrude Stein, "expressionist" painters like Max Ernst and Vassily Kandinsky were already scratching their nether brains, hypnotizing themselves into trances, trying to get their inchoate feelings into print and paint...
...offered to eat his syndicated Scripps-Howard column if the Gallup poll should prove correct this fall. Dr. George Horace Gallup accepted and replied: "My newspaper existence will end if I fail to predict the election correctly, but General Johnson will only have to eat a page* of newspaper print...