Word: transcript
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Appeal. From the North Adams (Mass.) Transcript: "Betsy Earle's parents wish to announce that she is suffering from a severe case of worms, and they urgently urge that, in the interest of her continued good health, the townspeople discontinue the practice of feeding her candy...
Doon, an artist, is on trial for paper-knifing Edwin Hallett, his fellow house guest in the Van Eyck mansion in Manhattan, for love of Betty Van Eyck. It is a novelty item, presented as exact transcript of the trial itself, with sketches and photographs...
Periodically reprinting the Constitution and leading sermons preached east of the Mississippi, the Transcript specialized in nostalgic essays. But editorially the Transcript was not always a gentleman. Foe of book and stage censorship, in a city holding the record for censorship, the Transcript fought Prohibition, reported the Thaw case in "blunt, ugly words which pseudo-fastidious contemporaries mincingly blue-penciled." Famed for his acid if polished gusto was the Transcript's music and drama critic, the late H. T. ("Hell-to-Pay") Parker. But it was rumored that he wrote his first drafts in Latin...
Although the Transcript came to symbolize the twilight of New England's culture, Boston remembered also that the Transcript had once symbolized the flowering of that culture. Longfellow, Lowell, Holmes, Thoreau had been its contributors ; it had had one of the first women editors in U.S. journalism; had introduced the first women's page, the first church page. Above all it had become as inseparably part of New England traditions as Faneuil Hall or the Tea Party...
This week, as death hovered over the fuddy-duddy Transcript, even Boston's hard-boiled reporters were moved to respectful silence. Nostalgia as well as wryness colored the telling of the most famed Transcript legend-that of the butler who announced to his mistress: "There are four reporters here, madam, and a gentleman from the Transcript...