Word: week
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...most important person in Argentina this week is Esther, grand champion of champions in Argentina's annual beauty show. . . . Even President Irigoyen is momentarily overlooked except for the day he presided over the ceremonies at which Esther was declared champion, and even then the president of the Republic played second fiddle to Esther. With insuperable eyes, perfect body and delicate lines, Esther has been admired this week by a great array of high government officials, diplomats and society matrons...
Taking down stories over the telephone, coordinating them, revamping them, the rewrite man softly cursing the reporter for not getting more and better facts, is routine in every newspaper office. But last week the New York Telegram received a story by telephone which occasioned no cursing, which no one dared rewrite...
...present price) for newsprint (TIME, Dec. 9 et seq.). The American Newspaper Publishers Association made the threatening gesture of inviting Federal investigation. They also made the conciliatory gesture of inviting a committee of the Newsprint Institute of Canada to meet with them in Manhattan and talk things over. Last week the pulpsters replied: Their minds were made up, they would not go to Manhattan to discuss the matter further, the price would be raised to $60 per ton with a $5 reduction for the first six months on three-year contracts...
...Toivo Loukola, but not, for some reason, to Paavo Nurmi who, tinkering with an old automobile in his machine-shop in Turku, shrugged his shoulders and looked hard at his work when reporters asked him whether it were true that he had been feeling sick lately. Meantime, last week, down a gangplank in Manhattan strode another athlete who had received no invitation-Stanislaw Petkiewicz of Poland...
...last ten years there has never been a year when Ralph Greenleaf was not, for a while anyway, the world's pocket billiard champion. Last week, under various shaded pyramids of white light in Detroit, he tried to get his title back. Frank Taberski, defending champion, was below form, and it was Erwin Rudolph who played Greenleaf in the finals...