Word: publickly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Penance in Albany. Hamilton was quick to note the prevailing temper and character of the towns he visited. Philadelphia, with its preponderance of Quaker businessmen, he found dull: "I never was in a place so populous where the gout for publick gay diversions prevailed so little . . . Some Virginia gentlemen . . . were desirous of having a ball but could find none of the feemale sex in a humour for it." New York (pop. 11,000) pleased him better, especially the conversation and the women, but in Albany the local custom of asking strangers to kiss the women "might almost pass...
...second editor was Dr. Frank Monaghan, a tweedy historian and onetime Yale professor who got the idea of reviving Publick Occurrences while doing a biography of its founder 15 years ago. He thought about it during long months in the Pentagon as an Army P.R.O., later talked a well-to-do Manhattan friend, , William Henry Walling, into printing it without charge. Actress Peggy Wood, wife to Publisher Walling, became "Dramaticks Editor" on the same basis-no pay; Thurman (Folklore of Capitalism) Arnold was signed on as Washington stringer; Novelist H. M. Tomlinson was to report from London...
...Publick Occurrences was also "now full weary of the strange Fulminations of both Henry Wallace and Harold ('The Terrible') Ickes and their Ranting about . . . 'MILITARY FASCISM.' . . ." It snickered over a typo in "our youngish but esteemed Contemporary, the New York Times." It needled The Lone Ranger for brazenly stating from coast to coast "that nowhere in the pages of History can you find a greater champion of justice...
...them; he just wanted to have some fun and pay "a simple little tribute to freedom of the press." As for pay, he referred them to his prospectus : "We publish no pictures, the last refuge of the Illiterate. . . . We accept no paid Advertisements. . . . You cannot buy a copy of PUBLICK OCCURRENCES. It is not exposed on the Public Marts, nor is it hawked about by street urchins . . . but we might be inveigled into a bit of Honest Barter. ., . . If you produce a joint of Ham, a shaving Lotion, a good Bourbon, a jug of maple syrup or any other good...
When would his next issue be? In the words of Publick Occurrences' first editor, whenever "any Glut of OCCURRENCES happen." There would probably be six or eight gluts a year, Monaghan guessed...