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City Editor 37: The ordinary American newspaper reporter [...] was regarded as essentially a wastrel and, given the opportunity, a Grade-A guttersnipe.at grade A, adj.
City Editor 37: The ordinary American newspaper reporter [...] was regarded as essentially a wastrel and, given the opportunity, a Grade-A guttersnipe. City Editor 60: The art reporter has been giving Diego Rivera’s stuff the up and down all afternoon.at up-and-down, the, n.
City Editor 99: ‘Eddie!’ whinnied Daley, the distraught worshipper of the bang-tails. ‘Eddie! Phar Lap is dead!’.at bangtail, n.2
City Editor 245: It was pithy, expert professional stuff. The Columbia news, except for one or two bobbles, was authentic.at bobble, n.
City Editor 138: Some press agents seem to possess vastly more bounce and shrewdness than even the best newspaper man.at bounce, n.1
City Editor 202: In 1926, following eight months of investigation by Herbert Mayer, at that time editor of the New York tabloid, the Mirror, the case ‘broke’ again.at break, v.2
City Editor 184: [T]he favored [electoral] candidate, although he may have little news, will have the preferred position on the front page, while the other one will be buried.at bury, v.
City Editor 51: The big town [...] is duck soup for medicine men and three-card monte adepts.at three-card monte, n.
City Editor 105: [O]ften a Communist who is doing no more than throwing a fit [...] appears in the photograph as the victim of a brutal attack by the cossacks.at cossack, n.
City Editor 70: In its handling of news, the Patterson tabloid is much less razzle-dazzle, much more conservative and factual, than it used to be.at razzle-dazzle, adj.
City Editor 250: [T]he women range from the sleazy, conniving little ignoramus to the straightforward, capable woman of education and character [...] There are dishrags and queens.at dishrag (n.) under dish, n.1
City Editor 160: [S]ometimes the best phrase—indeed, the only precise phrase—is slangy and reeks of the streets. If so, don’t spoil it by Nice Nellie quotation marks.at nice-nelly, adj.
City Editor 112: However, it is doubtful if the Daily News, confronted with a similar situation today, would attempt such a feat [i.e. grabbing a sneak photo of an execution]. It would be carrying enterprise pretty far north.at north, adj.
City Editor 141: [H]is publisher, who may be savant, merchant, or the reincarnation of Richard the Lion-Hearted, but who pays the freight.at pay the freight (v.) under pay, v.
City Editor 156: Rarely is there such a thing as too much of a good story. The readers, God help them, have been bored enough by pewee sagas.at pee-wee, adj.
City Editor 282: [T]he evangelist spent a great deal of futile time and effort in trying to reform O’Neill's drinking habits. O'Neill would always hit the sawdust trail when Sunday called upon him, and he was known to sing "Brighten the Corner Where You Are" from the press box.at hit the sawdust trail (v.) under sawdust, n.2
City Editor 112: [of newspaper photographers] There is a strong sense of honor, an undefined code which forbids shyster practices, even among this group of hard-boiled buccaneers.at shyster, adj.
City Editor 152: Some of the sleaziest writing anywhere is in American newspapers. Some of the best is there also.at sleazy, adj.
City Editor 131: [Sportswriter Paul Gallico] slugs along with a simple, pliant vocabulary which makes him the ideal man for his spot.at slug, v.2
City Editor 221: [T]he definition which Don Skene, the boxing writer, gives of a gentleman—‘a stand-up guy who will fight’.at stand-up guy (n.) under stand-up, adj.
City Editor 151: [T]he herd mind, whether it is to be whipped up for another war or made receptive to a soporific mattress, must continue to take its pummeling.at whip up (v.) under whip, v.1
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