Word: print
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Sydney's press feuds bitterly with Melbourne's. When Sir Keith, as Director of Information, issued decrees requiring newspapers to print anything the Ministry gave them, Sydney's press howled. It accused Sir Keith of using his official powers to muzzle rival newspapers. Cried the Sydney Telegraph in a page 1 editorial: "He is so used to getting a docile 'Yes, Sir Keith' from those who trot at his beck and call in Melbourne . . . that he expected the whole Australian people to bow down humbly and submit in the same...
...between sport and book collecting. . . . The joys of the chase and the exultation in achievement after an arduous hunt, whether of fox, pheasant or folio, have much in common." Thus graciously the Grolier Club last week mixed foxes and folios in an exhibit of members' sporting books and prints in its Manhattan clubhouse. Within its print-hung, paneled walls, smelling of old leather bindings and armchairs, the Grolier is a club of booklovers more interested in a richly tooled cover than in a succulent footnote or limpid trochee. It was founded in 1884 by craftsmen and wealthy collectors...
...save herself this time," 9.5 per cent. "A Nazi victory won't affect our position," 3 per cent. "I like the British and want to help them," 20 per cent. "A British victory is essential to our national defense," 37 per cent. The one result that we did not print, for reasons of space, was: "I want the British to win but it is not important enough to fight about." It received only 20.2 per cent, a fact which will not give the Crimson much solace...
Sour-faced Premier General Ion ('"Red Dog") Antonescu and Vice Premier and Iron Guard Leader Horia Sima spoke of "severe measures" to punish the extremist Green Shirts, but their words were scarcely in print when blood lust rushed through the whole disaster-sickened country. Onetime Premier Professor Nicolas lorga, tutor of King Carol and eminent historian, "the teacher of the nation," was found dead on the outskirts of the oil fields near his country home at Valeni-de-Munte. George Bratianu, scion of the dynasty which secured Rumania its independence, kept it going through World War I, was reported...
There is the battle of Long Island, like an old panorama print, with Smallwood's line of brown-clad Marylanders saving the routed American forces. There are weird night scenes in the Long Island swamps where the hunted tories hide, the horrors of life in the British prison hulks; the desperate tory defense of Ninety Six, a Virginia outpost. One of the book's best passages describes the long columns of tories stretching from Winchester (far down the Shenandoah Valley) to the Cumberland Gap. Persecuted by the rebels, let down by the British, the homeless loyalists ooze slowly...