Word: surprisingness
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The opinion of Mr. Paul Bellamy, managing editor of the Cleveland Plain Dealer, that the newspaper of the future will be less devoted to tales of crime and violence and more concerned with world affairs, is pleasantly surprising. Still more so is his prophecy that in another five years blood...
Rockwell Kent, known best for his woodcuts and his Wilderness, a book about Alaska, is holding an exhibition this week at the Wildenstein Galleries, Manhattan. Mr. Kent is most generally known as "Hogarth, Jr.,"over which signature he has done many delightful cartoons for Life and other publications. The present...
The results of the two races were not surprising nor discouraging. Coach Haines had selected the oarsmen for these two shells only the night before the race. The men had rarely rowed together. The last minute selection of these crews was due to the necessity of keeping the men in...
In view of the evident tendency of New York newspapers to merge with one another, it is somewhat surprising to learn that a new afternoon journal is about to be established. Mr. Frederick W. Enright, of the Boston "Telegram" and the Lynn "Telegram-News", who is contemplating what will be...
The surprising thing about Secretary Hoover's report is that we, a creditor nation, should have reduced our "unfavorable balance" of trade last year. As far as the actual exchange of merchandise is concerned we actually had a "favorable" balance of $389 million. This is explained simply by the...