"Editorial" Quotes from Famous Books
... others, is no longer confined to professional schools or educational journals—to the people from the inside. It is being taken up by laymen, even the daily papers, and prest with some vigor. To give the point of view, I give a single quotation from an editorial in a recent issue of the Minneapolis Journal: "None of our graduate schools require any course in education or teaching methods, or any previous experience in teaching work for a Ph. D. degree, except, of course, in the field of ...![](http://www.e-freetranslation.com/rquot.gif) — On the Firing Line in Education • Adoniram Judson Ladd
... my brother Jyotirindra decided to start the Bharati with our eldest brother as editor, giving us fresh food for enthusiasm. I was then just sixteen, but I was not left out of the editorial staff. A short time before, in all the insolence of my youthful vanity, I had written a criticism of the Meghanadabadha. As acidity is characteristic of the unripe mango so is abuse of the immature critic. When other powers are lacking, the power of pricking seems to be at its sharpest. ...![](http://www.e-freetranslation.com/rquot.gif) — My Reminiscences • Rabindranath Tagore
... System of Cure* in Children's Diseases and in Diphtheria. English Translation. New Edit. Editorial Introduction and Portrait of Joseph Wallace. ...![](http://www.e-freetranslation.com/rquot.gif) — The Healthy Life Cook Book, 2d ed. • Florence Daniel
... and sentences in the first text of Shakspere, have been ruthlessly expurgated by his editorial commentators, adding, no doubt, to the beauty and decency of the plays, but sadly ...![](http://www.e-freetranslation.com/rquot.gif) — Shakspere, Personal Recollections • John A. Joyce
... its first impression upon the surly-looking Irish porter, who, like a gruff and faithful watch-dog, guarded the entrance to the editorial rooms of the Bugle. He was enclosed in a kind of glass-framed sentry-box, with a door at the side, and a small arched aperture that was on a level with his face as he sat on a high stool. He saw to it, not too politely, that no one went ...![](http://www.e-freetranslation.com/rquot.gif) — Jennie Baxter, Journalist • Robert Barr
... had graduated. He had become a priest and for a time he had lived in a monastery. He had travelled a great deal and knew whereof he wrote, When he began his career as a public pamphleteer (he would have been called an editorial writer in our day) the world was greatly amused at an anonymous series of letters which had just appeared under the title of "Letters of Obscure Men." In these letters, the general stupidity and arrogance of the monks of the late Middle Ages ...![](http://www.e-freetranslation.com/rquot.gif) — The Story of Mankind • Hendrik van Loon
... the manner of being of this possible hero. Her mind intoxicated itself with the thought of his wealth. She went one day to the Public Library to read the articles on Rothschild and Astor in the encyclopedias. She even tried to read the editorial articles on gold and silver in the ...![](http://www.e-freetranslation.com/rquot.gif) — The Bread-winners - A Social Study • John Hay
... These editorial notes are proved to be of extreme antiquity by such considerations as these: The Septuagint translators found them, and did not understand them; the synagogue preserves no traditions to explain them; the Book of ...![](http://www.e-freetranslation.com/rquot.gif) — The Life of David - As Reflected in His Psalms • Alexander Maclaren
... be perplexed. The memory evoked by the style of the editorial writing and the presence of Captain Jim was assuming a suspicious relationship to each other. "And who's your editor?" ...![](http://www.e-freetranslation.com/rquot.gif) — The Heritage of Dedlow Marsh and Other Tales • Bret Harte
... Besides the major advertisement of the pills, consisting of an eight-inch column to be printed in each issue of the paper, smaller announcements were provided, to be inserted according to a specified monthly schedule among the editorial matter on the inside pages. Sample monthly announcements from the Judson Mountain Herb Pills ...![](http://www.e-freetranslation.com/rquot.gif) — History of the Comstock Patent Medicine Business and Dr. Morse's Indian Root Pills • Robert B. Shaw
... American humor has been ill represented. Comic publications have appeared only at rare intervals, and comic journals have soon degenerated into stupidity or coarseness. Yet this has not been for lack of material, but of a proper editorial faculty, and from the want of a habitude or a willingness on the part of those who conceive clever things to note them down and give them out in black and white. When "Vanity Fair" first appeared, we thought we saw in it the germ of a journal ...![](http://www.e-freetranslation.com/rquot.gif) — The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 10, No. 58, August, 1862 • Various
... impulses, which always terminated in frivolous or dangerous adventures. And the Monitor fully backed up its correspondent, because, when the issue of the paper that published the despatch reached them, it also contained an editorial, in which the editor wrote ...![](http://www.e-freetranslation.com/rquot.gif) — The Candidate - A Political Romance • Joseph Alexander Altsheler
... political programme, or rather a political defence of the wing of the Government of National Defence to which that gentleman belongs. For a French politician to praise himself in his own organ, and to say under the editorial "we" that he intends to vote for himself, and that he has the greatest confidence in his own wisdom, is regarded ...![](http://www.e-freetranslation.com/rquot.gif) — Diary of the Besieged Resident in Paris • Henry Labouchere
... having anything to do with either of the old parties, that fusion, particularly of the sort which resulted in combination tickets, was a compromise with the enemy, and that more votes had been lost than won by the process. This feeling found characteristic expression in an editorial in ...![](http://www.e-freetranslation.com/rquot.gif) — The Agrarian Crusade - A Chronicle of the Farmer in Politics • Solon J. Buck
... arranged all that. All we've got to do is to write the thing. As the penalty for your sins you shall take on most of it. I'll do the editorial, Welch is pegging away at the Sports account now, and I waylaid Jackson just before lock-up, and induced him by awful threats to knock off some verses. So ...![](http://www.e-freetranslation.com/rquot.gif) — The Pothunters • P. G. Wodehouse
... verified by measurement. Evidently, you will conclude, a stout man grown thin; or, at any rate, grown less stout. His molded depth, one might assess at 20 inches between the eaves; his longitude, say, five feet eleven; his registered tonnage, 170; his cargo, literary; and his destination, the editorial sancta of ...![](http://www.e-freetranslation.com/rquot.gif) — Mince Pie • Christopher Darlington Morley
... one of the editors who are now so earnest in their appeals for further grants of privilege venture so to do? Would not the most earnest of them be among the first to visit on such a proposition the most withering denunciations? Judging from what, in the last two years, we have read in various editorial columns, we should say that they would be so. Would, however, any member of either house of Congress venture to commit himself before the world by offering such a proposition? We doubt it very much. Nevertheless it is now coolly proposed to establish a system that would not ...![](http://www.e-freetranslation.com/rquot.gif) — Letters on International Copyright; Second Edition • Henry C. Carey
... remaining newspapers, arranging them in the order of dates, and then glanced through every column in search of news about the trial, even to the editorial comments on the action of the Grand Jury. The earlier papers that had the account of the investigation by the Commission had been destroyed unread, but she inferred from what she saw that the affair rose from the complaint of independent mine-owners in Missouri and Indiana that they were ...![](http://www.e-freetranslation.com/rquot.gif) — Together • Robert Herrick (1868-1938)
... not know," says an editorial writer in the New York Evening Sun, "what the judgments of the military critics will be when they have carefully studied and sifted the evidence, but to a layman it looks as if Foch was not merely a very great general but one of the greatest ...![](http://www.e-freetranslation.com/rquot.gif) — Foch the Man - A Life of the Supreme Commander of the Allied Armies • Clara E. Laughlin
... critical moment the mob received an endorsement that not only greatly encouraged it, but incited it to extreme violence. A local newspaper, on Friday, the 20th, in the course of an editorial headed "The Talk of the Desperate," which formulated what was assumed as the expression of a workingman, used ...![](http://www.e-freetranslation.com/rquot.gif) — A Short History of Pittsburgh • Samuel Harden Church
... and do not read themselves. It is not a library of reference only, but a library to be read. The selections do not represent the partialities and prejudices and cultivation of any one person, or of a group of editors even; but, under the necessary editorial supervision, the sober judgment of almost as many minds as have assisted in the preparation of these volumes. By this method, breadth of appreciation ...![](http://www.e-freetranslation.com/rquot.gif) — Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 1 • Charles Dudley Warner
... the matter of circulating false information that these news venders are at fault. The habit of retailing 'points' in the interest of cliques, the volunteering of advice as to what people should buy and what they should sell, the strong speculative bias that runs through their editorial opinions, these things appear to most people a revolting abuse of the true functions ...![](http://www.e-freetranslation.com/rquot.gif) — Successful Stock Speculation • John James Butler
... Balaam and his ass, is that the latter belonged to the female sex. This animal has been one of the most remarkable characters in literature. Her virtues have been quoted in the stately cathedral, in the courts of justice, in the editorial sanctum, in both tragedy and comedy on the stage, to point a moral and adorn a tale. Some of the fairest of Eve's daughters bear her baptismal name, and she has been immortalized in poetry and prose. Wordsworth sends her with his Peter Bell to enjoy the first flowers of early spring. ...![](http://www.e-freetranslation.com/rquot.gif) — The Woman's Bible. • Elizabeth Cady Stanton
... Farman, whose skilful editorial management of "Wide Awake" all acquainted with that publication must admire, shows that her great capacity to amuse and instruct our growing youth can take a wider range. Her books are exceedingly interesting, and of that fine moral tone which so many ...![](http://www.e-freetranslation.com/rquot.gif) — Lilith - The Legend of the First Woman • Ada Langworthy Collier
... defunct republicans, would have been necessarily scanty. There being no appearance of any demand, present or prospective, for philanthropists, he tried to get employment as correspondent of a newspaper. Here also it was impossible that he should succeed; he was too great to be merged in the editorial We, and had too well defined a private opinion on all subjects to be able to express that average of public opinion which constitutes able editorials. But so it is that to the prophet in the wilderness the birds of ill omen are already on the wing with food from heaven; and ...![](http://www.e-freetranslation.com/rquot.gif) — English Critical Essays - Nineteenth Century • Various
... creeps out an indication, in the light of which we have a right to interpret this claim. Mr. Flower, in his editorial, had shown how a Christian Scientist had been arrested in Iowa for this offence. In the words of the indictment, "She had practised a cure on one Mrs. George B. Freeman." After the physicians had pronounced the case hopeless, and had given her ...![](http://www.e-freetranslation.com/rquot.gif) — The Arena - Volume 4, No. 21, August, 1891 • Various
... these matters when he suddenly recalled that it was forbidden to remember things as they had been under the old regime. He pulled himself up with a start. In order to make his mind a blank he tried to imagine himself about to write a leading editorial for the Balloon. This was so successful that he did not come to earth again until they stood in the ante-room—or as Quimbleton called ...![](http://www.e-freetranslation.com/rquot.gif) — In the Sweet Dry and Dry • Christopher Morley
... with blocks of buildings for letters, domes, turrets, and towers for punctuation-points, church-spires for interrogation and exclamation marks, and squares and avenues for division-spaces between the paragraphs, set up and leaded with streets into a vast editorial page of original matter on Commerce and Manufactures, rolled every morning with the ink of toil, and printing before night an edition of results circulated to the remotest quarters of the globe. And the tall chimneys yonder were to ...![](http://www.e-freetranslation.com/rquot.gif) — Atlantic Monthly, Volume 6, Issue 35, September, 1860 • Various
... Voltage, was highly technical, and convinced every editor to whom it was sent (and by whom it was returned) that the author knew his subject thoroughly. So when he followed it up with How to be a Tram Conductor, he had the satisfaction not only of seeing it in print within a week, but of reading an editorial reference to himself as "the noted expert on our overhead system." Two other articles in the same paper—Some Curious Tram Accidents and Tram or ...![](http://www.e-freetranslation.com/rquot.gif) — The Holiday Round • A. A. Milne
... news from Germany. How are my friends Bronsart, Draseke, Damrosch, Weissheimer? Give them my heartiest greetings, and let me see some notices of the onward endeavors and experiences of these my young friends, as also of the doings of the Redactions-Hohle [Editorial den] and the details ...![](http://www.e-freetranslation.com/rquot.gif) — Letters of Franz Liszt, Volume 2: "From Rome to the End" • Franz Liszt; letters collected by La Mara and translated
... fields blush with a more tender sunshine. He will go forth at dawn with countless flipflaps of gymnastic joy; and when the white sun shall redden with the blood of dying day, and the hogs shall set up a fine evening hymn of supplication to the Giver of Swill, he will stand upon the editorial head, blissfully conscious that his intellect is a-ripening for the ...![](http://www.e-freetranslation.com/rquot.gif) — The Fiend's Delight • Dod Grile
... rather incoherent attack by Lady Morgan upon her critics. The editor, Thomas Campbell, explained in an indignant letter to the Times, that the article had been inserted by the proprietor without being first submitted to the editorial eye, and that he was in no way responsible for its contents. Colburn also wrote to the Times to refute the Quarterly reviewer's statements regarding the sales of Italy, and publicly to declare his entire ...![](http://www.e-freetranslation.com/rquot.gif) — Little Memoirs of the Nineteenth Century • George Paston
... Maxse's National Review had a criticism of the contract by Major Archer-Shee, M.P., with editorial comment as well. In the same month the Morning Post and the Spectator pressed for further enquiry. The October number of the National Review contained a searching criticism of the whole business and called special attention to the Stock ...![](http://www.e-freetranslation.com/rquot.gif) — Gilbert Keith Chesterton • Maisie Ward
... begins—"covered," however, being too large a word for the first seven years, which are represented by seven letters only; it is only in 1806 that we start upon something like a consecutive story. Mr. Douglas speaks modestly of his editorial work. "I have done," he says, "little more than arrange the correspondence in chronological order, supplying where necessary a slight thread of continuity by annotation and illustration." It must be said that Mr. Douglas has done this exceedingly well. There is always a note where a note ...![](http://www.e-freetranslation.com/rquot.gif) — Adventures in Criticism • Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
... Steele Mackaye's dramas were written with any idea of being read. They were all constructed by one fully alive to the theatre and its demands. In view of this, it is surprising how well "Paul Kauvar" flows in type. The minor editorial changes made for this edition by Mr. Percy Mackaye are based on several manuscripts, and the result is the first authentic text of the play. Steele Mackaye was always gripped in fascination by mob psychology, ...![](http://www.e-freetranslation.com/rquot.gif) — Representative Plays by American Dramatists: 1856-1911: Paul Kauvar; or, Anarchy • Steele Mackaye
... interest taken in European news, and a prominent position was given to long letters, or extracts from seaboard papers, containing accounts of the operations of the English fleets and the French armies, or of the attitude of the European governments. Like most Americans, the editorial writers of the paper originally sympathized strongly with the French Revolution; but the news of the beheading of Marie Antoinette, and the recital of the atrocities committed in Paris, worked a reaction among those who loved order, ...![](http://www.e-freetranslation.com/rquot.gif) — The Winning of the West, Volume Four - Louisiana and the Northwest, 1791-1807 • Theodore Roosevelt
... meantime Toru was no sooner dead than she began to be famous. In May, 1878, there appeared a second edition of the "Sheaf gleaned in French Fields," with a touching sketch of her death, by her father; and in 1879 was published, under the editorial care of Mlle. Clarisse Bader, the romance of "Le Journal de Mlle. D'Arvers," forming a handsome volume of 259 pages. This book, begun, as it appears, before the family returned from Europe, and finished nobody knows when, is an attempt to describe scenes from modern French society, but it is less ...![](http://www.e-freetranslation.com/rquot.gif) — Hindu Literature • Epiphanius Wilson
... of the war he lived in France, doing editorial work for a radical Russian Socialist daily paper, the Nashe Slovo. His writing, together with his activity in the Zimmerwald movement of anti-war Socialists, caused his expulsion from France. The Swiss government having refused to permit him to enter Switzerland, ...![](http://www.e-freetranslation.com/rquot.gif) — Bolshevism - The Enemy of Political and Industrial Democracy • John Spargo
... manuscript has been brought to light in the Bodleian Library." The work is one of the most important contributions to English history which has recently been put forth, and Mr. Jardine deserves the highest credit for the manner in which he was discharged his editorial duties. ...![](http://www.e-freetranslation.com/rquot.gif) — Notes and Queries, Number 81, May 17, 1851 • Various
... trenchant. One of the leading newspapers of Boston down to 1856 was the Atlas—the organ of the anti-slavery wing of the Whig party, of the men who laid the foundation of the Republican party. Its chief editorial writer was the brilliant Charles T. Congdon, with whom Mr. Coffin was associated as assistant editor till the paper was merged into ...![](http://www.e-freetranslation.com/rquot.gif) — The Bay State Monthly, Volume 3, No. 1 • Various
... changed its political tendencies, infused it with western activity and filled it with cosmopolitan news, and now, after eighteen months, the young man found himself coming abreast of his two long established rivals in the editorial field. This success was but an incentive to his overwhelming ambition for place, power and riches. He had seen just enough of life and of the world to estimate these things at double their value; and he ...![](http://www.e-freetranslation.com/rquot.gif) — An Ambitious Man • Ella Wheeler Wilcox
... fiercely and wholly and blindly—so blindly that we could see nothing in our own faction but what was good and high and pure, nothing in the other but what was smutted with evil intent. In daily double-leaded editorial columns the chief preached a Holy War, and in the local pages we fought the foe tooth and nail, biting and gouging and clawing, and they gouged and clawed back at us like catamounts. That was where the hard work fell ...![](http://www.e-freetranslation.com/rquot.gif) — The Escape of Mr. Trimm - His Plight and other Plights • Irvin S. Cobb
... told his story and added editorial comment. "Gamest thing I ever saw in my life, by Jiminy—stood there with his back to the man-killer and lit a cigarette while the ruffian had his finger on the trigger of a six-gun ready to whang away at him. Can you ...![](http://www.e-freetranslation.com/rquot.gif) — The Sheriff's Son • William MacLeod Raine
... resume the march on Fayetteville. In a house where General Hardee had been, I found a late New York Tribune, of fully a month later date than any I had seen. It contained a mass of news of great interest to us, and one short paragraph which I thought extremely mischievous. I think it was an editorial, to the effect that at last the editor had the satisfaction to inform his readers that General Sherman would next be heard from about Goldsboro', because his supply-vessels from Savannah were known to be rendezvousing at Morehead ...![](http://www.e-freetranslation.com/rquot.gif) — The Memoirs of General W. T. Sherman, Complete • William T. Sherman
... idea,—that is if the idea be that the likeness of the assassin remains on the retina of the victim's eye, and can be reproduced by photography,—is not a novelty. Perhaps this story in Lippincott comes out of one of Mr. RUDYARD KIPLING'S pigeon-holes, and was just chucked in haphazard, because Editorial Lippincott wanted something with the name of the KIPLING, "bright and merry," to it. It's not very "bright," ...![](http://www.e-freetranslation.com/rquot.gif) — Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 99, August 9, 1890. • Various
... encouraged, or rebuked, as the case might require, with becoming zeal, and the "pestilent opposition sheets" were attacked with that felicitous but inexorable sarcasm which distinguishes editorial contests. The rhetorical expression of contempt or indignation, and the large share which these passions had in the leading articles, justly entitled the "Vidette" to an eminent place among ...![](http://www.e-freetranslation.com/rquot.gif) — History of Morgan's Cavalry • Basil W. Duke
... Page 192: Editorial comment in quoted letter (that) is in parentheses and not square brackets as has been used elsewhere in ...![](http://www.e-freetranslation.com/rquot.gif) — Claverhouse • Mowbray Morris
... Washington, and very soon were the subject of animated conversation in practically every corner of the nation. The Press cartoonists, by their friendly and satirical comments, helped a great deal in popularizing the campaign. In spite of the bitter editorial comment of most of the press, the humor of the situation ...![](http://www.e-freetranslation.com/rquot.gif) — Jailed for Freedom • Doris Stevens
... the Times, born near Bath; studied at Oxford, where he distinguished himself; is a Fellow of All Souls' College; became editor in 1884, having previously belonged to the editorial staff; b. 1854. ...![](http://www.e-freetranslation.com/rquot.gif) — The Nuttall Encyclopaedia - Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge • Edited by Rev. James Wood
... my dear captain; of course you are. And your ideas of the cause of the war, as a military man, are quite correct. Indeed, if you will read my editorial of yesterday you will see the same ideas developed ...![](http://www.e-freetranslation.com/rquot.gif) — Captain Jinks, Hero • Ernest Crosby
... in order to keep them in good voice, and, in the palmy days of Grub Street, an editor's table was nothing grander than his own knee, on which, in his airy garret, he unrolled his paper-parcel of dinner, happy if its wrapping were a sheet from Brown's last poem, and not his own. Now an editorial table seems to mean a board of green cloth at which literary broken-victuals are served out with no carving but ...![](http://www.e-freetranslation.com/rquot.gif) — The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. I, No. 1, Nov. 1857 • Various
... to time the suicides of youths from this cause are reported, and in many mysterious suicides this has undoubtedly been the real cause. "Week after week," writes the British Medical Journal in an editorial ("Dangerous Quack Literature: The Moral of a Recent Suicide," Oct. 1, 1892), "we receive despairing letters from those victims of foul birds of prey who have obtained their first hold on those they rob, torture and often ruin, by advertisements inserted by newspapers of a respectable, nay, even ...![](http://www.e-freetranslation.com/rquot.gif) — Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 6 (of 6) • Havelock Ellis
... a splendid scheme," was the editorial remark in the New York paper. "Certain parties in this city are largely interested in the Company, and have made investments of several hundred thousand dollars. More than one of these, it is thought, will be ruined by the catastrophe. Another ...![](http://www.e-freetranslation.com/rquot.gif) — The Good Time Coming • T. S. Arthur
... a new Journal is a hazardous and expensive undertaking. Every reader of this volume receives what has cost more than he pays for it, and in addition receives the product of months of editorial, and many years of scientific, labor. May I not therefore ask his aid in relieving me of this burden by increasing the circulation of the Journal ...![](http://www.e-freetranslation.com/rquot.gif) — Buchanan's Journal of Man, August 1887 - Volume 1, Number 7 • Various
... department it is no great affair. You make me laugh at the long face you pull about the duties, based on my phrase. The fact is, you notice what you like, and what you do not you leave undone, unless you get an editorial request to say something about a particular book. The whole affair is entirely in your own hands—at least it is in mine—as I went upon my principle of having a row ...![](http://www.e-freetranslation.com/rquot.gif) — The Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley Volume 1 • Leonard Huxley
... the head medium of the infernal league, has published my article, but with such editorial remarks, as were quite agreeable to his master, the infernal Holiness. I forgot to inquire, whether my article appeared or not in the Liberator, till on the first day of our Convention a man remarked that our Convention was small on account of Garrison's editorial remarks to my article and his grand ...![](http://www.e-freetranslation.com/rquot.gif) — Secret Enemies of True Republicanism • Andrew B. Smolnikar
... this power in 1832. At the close of a month's debate, the following proceedings were had. I extract from an editorial article of the Richmond ...![](http://www.e-freetranslation.com/rquot.gif) — The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus • American Anti-Slavery Society
... to all honest seekers of facts respecting the race whether from a moral, educational, political or religious field. To carry out the plans suggested, whether viewed from an intellectual, industrial, commercial, or editorial standpoint, the world must acknowledge that to-day the negro race has the men and women, who are true to their race and all that stands ...![](http://www.e-freetranslation.com/rquot.gif) — Memories of Childhood's Slavery Days • Annie L. Burton
... In an editorial in the Independent, written in 1862, upon the disbanding of this old church, the Bowdoin Street—originally Hanover Street—Church, ...![](http://www.e-freetranslation.com/rquot.gif) — Stories of Achievement, Volume III (of 6) - Orators and Reformers • Various
... curiosity had it been carried to a conclusion. On the spur of the moment I can think of only two American musicians whose capacity was adequate to such a task—Mr. W. H. Fry, who was then musical critic and an editorial writer for The Tribune, and Mr. George F. Bristow, both of whom had composed operas found worthy of performance. Mr. Fry's "Leonora" was performed at the Academy on March 29, 1858, with Mme. Lagrange in the principal rle, but the score was already a dozen years old, ...![](http://www.e-freetranslation.com/rquot.gif) — Chapters of Opera • Henry Edward Krehbiel
... probability of another outbreak, we dare not comment upon events, which, for the good of all classes, ought to be calmly and fully discussed." A significant commentary upon these statements is the fact that Mr. Levien, the editor of a Jamaica paper, was arrested, because in an editorial he boldly condemned the trial and execution of Mr. Gordon. And it is probable that he escaped paying dearly for his courage, only because the Chief Justice of Jamaica declared the whole law under which he was arrested unconstitutional, and dismissed the case. ...![](http://www.e-freetranslation.com/rquot.gif) — The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 102, April, 1866 • Various
... papers left at Borrow's death was a fragment of a political article in dispraise of the Radicals. The editorial "We" suggests that Borrow might possibly have been engaged in political journalism. The statement made by him that he "frequently spoke up for Wellington" {90a} may or may not have had reference to contributions to the press. The fragment itself proves nothing. Many would-be journalists write ...![](http://www.e-freetranslation.com/rquot.gif) — The Life of George Borrow • Herbert Jenkins
... taxi and came, and found the critic at his shabby old desk under a green-shaded electric light, in the midst of a vast solitude, the editorial offices of an evening newspaper at that hour being about the loneliest place in the world. There was a rusty look about this particular local room, too, that made you wonder that any real news ever could emanate from it. Yet ...![](http://www.e-freetranslation.com/rquot.gif) — The Real Adventure • Henry Kitchell Webster
... his society. Such a picture did not rise even to the dignity of caricature. Nor is it relieved either in this work or elsewhere by others drawn favorably. The reader of Cooper will search his writings in vain for a portrait which any member of the editorial profession would be glad to recognize as ...![](http://www.e-freetranslation.com/rquot.gif) — James Fenimore Cooper - American Men of Letters • Thomas R. Lounsbury
... its queer jumble of news and advertisements, had a novel and attractive appearance quite apart from the usual standards of typographical make-up. People laughed at King's naive editorial apology for entering an overcrowded and none-too-prosperous field; they nodded approvingly over his promise to tell the ...![](http://www.e-freetranslation.com/rquot.gif) — Port O' Gold • Louis John Stellman
... inasmuch as my regular fellow-labourers and I will be at our old posts, in company with those younger comrades, whom I have had the pleasure of enrolling from time to time, and whose number it is always one of my pleasantest editorial duties to enlarge. ...![](http://www.e-freetranslation.com/rquot.gif) — Contributions to All The Year Round • Charles Dickens
... which goes by their joint names. A fourth edition, with large additions, was published in 1793, in fifteen volumes octavo. In the preparation of it for the press, Mr. Steevens gave an instance of editorial activity and perseverance, which is, probably, without a parallel. For a period of eighteen months, he devoted himself solely and exclusively to the work; and, during that time, left his house every morning at one ...![](http://www.e-freetranslation.com/rquot.gif) — Letters of Horace Walpole, V4 • Horace Walpole
... sit down and sketch the outline of a series of ten, twelve, or twenty-four leading articles on Seniority versus Selection; missionaries wish to know why they have not been permitted to escape from their regular vehicles of abuse and swear at a brother-missionary under special patronage of the editorial We; stranded theatrical companies troop up to explain that they cannot pay for their advertisements, but on their return from New Zealand or Tahiti will do so with interest; inventors of patent punkah-pulling machines, carriage couplings and unbreakable swords and axle-trees call ...![](http://www.e-freetranslation.com/rquot.gif) — Short Stories Old and New • Selected and Edited by C. Alphonso Smith
... She rejoined with equal elaboration and detail, referring to a more definite form of tyranny in the relations of marriage, and alluding with some feeling to uncongenial experiences of her own. An instinct of natural delicacy, veiled under the hyperbole of 'want of space,' prevented my editorial friend from encouraging the repetition of this charming interchange of thought and feeling. But I procured the fair stranger's address; we began a correspondence, at once imaginative and sympathetic in expression, if not always poetical in form. I was called to South America ...![](http://www.e-freetranslation.com/rquot.gif) — The Crusade of the Excelsior • Bret Harte
... my surprise, refused a cocktail. It seems, as he explained, that he "got into the way of taking nothing over there." I noticed that my friend Quiller, who is a war correspondent, or, I should say, a war editorial writer, took three cocktails and talked all the more brilliantly for it through the opening courses of the dinner, about the story of the smashing of the Hindenburg line. He decided, after his second Burgundy, that it had been simply a case of sticking it out. I say "Burgundy" ...![](http://www.e-freetranslation.com/rquot.gif) — The Hohenzollerns in America - With the Bolsheviks in Berlin and other impossibilities • Stephen Leacock
... the sinking of another half dozen British or other vessels. The daily papers print them quite as a matter of course, and only in a prominent position when the bag reaches an unusually high figure. In the editorial columns of many papers a certain malicious joy is even observable, that England, who boasts of having mastered the submarine, should now be so ...![](http://www.e-freetranslation.com/rquot.gif) — My Three Years in America • Johann Heinrich Andreas Hermann Albrecht Graf von Bernstorff
... occasion, and the archaic nature of the hymn, with the reference to a mythical leader of the revolt of women, deserves the attention of anthropologists, apart from the singular character of the rite described. In the third number of the Journal (vol. ii.) the following editorial note ...![](http://www.e-freetranslation.com/rquot.gif) — Modern Mythology • Andrew Lang
... mediocrity becomes the rule. They have not been without facts for their support. And I do not see why we who believe in democracy should not recognize this danger and trace it to its source. Certainly it is not answered with a sneer. I have worked in the editorial office of a popular magazine, a magazine that is known widely as a champion of popular rights. By personal experience, by intimate conversations, and by looking about, I think I am pretty well aware of what the influence ...![](http://www.e-freetranslation.com/rquot.gif) — A Preface to Politics • Walter Lippmann
... Bonaparte, after the ceremony, "hereafter we must drop the first person singular I and assume the dignity of the editorial WE. Emperors and editors alike are entitled to the distinction. It's a sign of plurality which is often quite as effective as a majority. Furthermore, you and We can do it logically, for we are several persons all at once, what with the assortment of thrones that we have acquired ...![](http://www.e-freetranslation.com/rquot.gif) — Mr. Bonaparte of Corsica • John Kendrick Bangs
... frequent Lafitte, and, all failing, I betook myself to a stray newspaper in despair. Having carefully perused the column of "houses to let," and the column of "dogs lost," and then the two columns of "wives and apprentices runaway," I attacked with great resolution the editorial matter, and, reading it from beginning to end without understanding a syllable, conceived the possibility of its being Chinese, and so re-read it from the end to the beginning, but with no more satisfactory result. I was about ...![](http://www.e-freetranslation.com/rquot.gif) — The Works of Edgar Allan Poe - Volume 4 (of 5) of the Raven Edition • Edgar Allan Poe
... run round to the meeting in the Town Hall to-night and see what sort of a fist you make of it," said Cairns, the man who now sat in the editorial chair of "The Grey Town Observer," to Desmond O'Connor, just one month after the young man had been admitted to ...![](http://www.e-freetranslation.com/rquot.gif) — Grey Town - An Australian Story • Gerald Baldwin
... leading city paper published a report of the results of the post-mortem, which doubtless had been furnished by the relatives, and with it an editorial note. ...![](http://www.e-freetranslation.com/rquot.gif) — Doctor Therne • H. Rider Haggard
... which, by the report of those who had seen it, bore a strong resemblance to California gold ore. Much excitement in the neighborhood in consequence [Idiots! Iron pyrites!] A hen at Four Corners had just laid an egg measuring 7 by 8 inches. Fetch on your biddies! [Editorial wit!] A man had shot an eagle measuring six feet and a half from tip to tip of his wings.—Crops suffering for want of rain [Always just so. "Dry times, Father Noah!"] The editors had received a liberal portion of cake from the happy couple ...![](http://www.e-freetranslation.com/rquot.gif) — The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table • Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (The Physician and Poet not the Jurist)
... written, to show that the literary business is a very disagreeable business; and that branch of it coming under the "Editorial" head is about as comfortable as the bed of Procustes would be to an invalid. It may doubtless look and sound well, to see one's name in print, going the rounds, especially at the head of the editorial columns, from ten to fifty thousand eyes and tongues scanning ...![](http://www.e-freetranslation.com/rquot.gif) — The Humors of Falconbridge - A Collection of Humorous and Every Day Scenes • Jonathan F. Kelley
... we intend to do. This very day we have bought the "County News." There was no difficulty about the financial side of the matter; but— (Turns towards ROSMER) Now we have come to the real purport of my visit. It is the Management of it—the editorial management—that is the difficulty, you see. Look here, Rosmer—don't you feel called upon to undertake it, for the sake ...![](http://www.e-freetranslation.com/rquot.gif) — Rosmerholm • Henrik Ibsen
... gentleman on the staff of that paper who, if not the editor, was as good as the editor; and he had long been in the habit of writing telling letters on all manner of ecclesiastical abuses, which he signed with his initials, and sent to his editorial friend with private notes signed in his own name. Indeed, he and Mr. Towers—such was the name of the powerful gentleman of the press with whom he was connected—were generally very amiable with each other. Mr. Slope's little productions were ...![](http://www.e-freetranslation.com/rquot.gif) — Barchester Towers • Anthony Trollope
... sat down to look over the evening paper. The Merton case, which had replaced the Sheridan Road mystery in editorial esteem, was now retired to an inner page. He read the usual short notice that the police expected to have the guilty parties in custody within the next twenty-four hours, accompanied by an announcement of some of their plans so that the people sought could have timely warning of what to expect. ...![](http://www.e-freetranslation.com/rquot.gif) — The Sheridan Road Mystery • Paul Thorne
... sets an example by giving four hundred dollars "out of his poverty"—or, to be more precise, out of the poverty of the pitiful peasantry of Italy. There is included in the paper a form of bequest for "devoted clients of Our Blessed Mother", and at the top of the editorial page the most alluring of all baits for the loving hearts of the flock—that the names of deceased relatives and friends may be written in the collection books, and will be transferred to the records of the Shrine, and these persons "will share in all its spiritual ...![](http://www.e-freetranslation.com/rquot.gif) — The Profits of Religion, Fifth Edition • Upton Sinclair
... a sprig of holly, with scarlet berries showing against the green, stuck in, by one of the office boys probably, behind the sign that pointed the way up to the editorial rooms. There was no reason why it should have made me start when I came suddenly upon it at the turn of the stairs; but it did. Perhaps it was because that dingy hall, given over to dust and draughts all the days of the year, was the last place in which ...![](http://www.e-freetranslation.com/rquot.gif) — Children of the Tenements • Jacob A. Riis
... Scott appears to have been the indirect means of placing Hook in the editorial chair. When he was in London, in April 1820, a nobleman called upon him, and asked if he could find him in Edinburgh some clever fellow to undertake the editorship of a paper about to be established. Sir Walter suggested ...![](http://www.e-freetranslation.com/rquot.gif) — The Journal of Sir Walter Scott - From the Original Manuscript at Abbotsford • Walter Scott
... no magazines and daily papers, each reeling off a serial story. Once a week, "The Columbian Sentinel" came from Boston with its slender stock of news and editorial; but all the multiform devices—pictorial, narrative, and poetical—which keep the mind of the present generation ablaze with excitement, had not then even an existence. There was no theatre, no opera; there were in Oldtown no parties ...![](http://www.e-freetranslation.com/rquot.gif) — Oldtown Fireside Stories • Harriet Beecher Stowe
... office in Northumberland Street—I saw him going two steps at a time—and flung himself into the office of Mr. Fyffe, an old and highly-esteemed member of the Times staff, who had joined Mr. Frederick Greenwood in the editorial direction of the new development of the Pall Mall. What Walter said to Fyffe I never learned in detail, but subsequently had reason to guess he told him he had in the cab downstairs a young fellow who was (or would be) one of the wonders of the journalistic world, and ...![](http://www.e-freetranslation.com/rquot.gif) — The Strand Magazine, Volume V, Issue 25, January 1893 - An Illustrated Monthly • Various
... was the opportunity of a proud father. Without telling his son of his discovery or his purpose, he left the poems one day, together with some translations from Horace by the same hand, at the office of The North American. The little package was addressed to his editorial friend, Mr. Willard Phillips, of whom tradition tells us that as soon as he read the poems he betook himself in hot haste to Cambridge to display his treasures to his associates, Richard H. Dana and Edward T. Channing. 'Ah, Phillips,' ...![](http://www.e-freetranslation.com/rquot.gif) — Stories of Authors, British and American • Edwin Watts Chubb
... expecting the speedy coming of Christ, but had moved the date forward to 1870. All through Smith's autobiography and the Millennial Star will be found mention of every portent that might be construed as an indication of the coming disruption of this world. As late as December 6, 1856, an editorial in the Millennial Star said, "The signs of the times clearly indicate to every observing mind that the great day of the second advent of Messiah ...![](http://www.e-freetranslation.com/rquot.gif) — The Story of the Mormons: • William Alexander Linn
... relics of the past. The introduction, and appendix, though added late, contain very ancient material. Many of the historical notices in ch. i. are reproductions of early and important notices in the book of Joshua, though with significant editorial additions, usually in honour of Judah; [Footnote: Cf. ch. i. 8, which contradicts i. 21; and i, 18, which contradicts i. 19.] and the story of the origin of the sanctuary at Dan, with its very candid account of the furniture of the sanctuary and the capture of the ...![](http://www.e-freetranslation.com/rquot.gif) — Introduction to the Old Testament • John Edgar McFadyen
... received. Having boned up on the literature of the Redwood Manufacturers' Association, what Buck Ogilvy didn't know about redwood timber, redwood lumber, the remaining redwood acreage and market conditions, past and present, might have been secreted in the editorial eye without seriously hampering the editorial sight. He stated that the capital behind the project was foreign, that he believed in the success of the project and that his entire fortune was dependent upon ...![](http://www.e-freetranslation.com/rquot.gif) — The Valley of the Giants • Peter B. Kyne
... reason for Whittier to look for success in political life, for his editorial work had made him widely known as a man of sane and practical views, and he was so highly regarded in the district where he lived that had he reached the required age of twenty-five, he would in all probability have been made a candidate ...![](http://www.e-freetranslation.com/rquot.gif) — Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 7 • Charles H. Sylvester
... on," said Starmidge, dropping into a chair by the editorial desk. "I'll tell you ...![](http://www.e-freetranslation.com/rquot.gif) — The Chestermarke Instinct • J. S. Fletcher
... slipped out of the Common Council into the transit company's pocket, and even the partizan papers mildly belabored the aldermanic body. The Evening Call, however slashed the ward representatives vigorously. It wound up its editorial with the query: "How much longer will the public stand this sort of thing?" The Call was the only independent sheet in town, and did about as ...![](http://www.e-freetranslation.com/rquot.gif) — Half a Rogue • Harold MacGrath
... his toes, careful lest the bamboo curtain rattle behind him. He went into the study and sat down at his table, but not to write. He drew out the check and the editorial letter. He had sold half a dozen short tales to third-rate magazines; but this letter had been issued from a distinguished editorial room, of international reputation. If he could keep it up—style and calibre of imagination—within a year the name of Taber ...![](http://www.e-freetranslation.com/rquot.gif) — The Ragged Edge • Harold MacGrath
... The Call editorial and mechanical departments were totally destroyed in a few minutes and the flames leaped across Stevenson street toward the fine fifteen-story stone and iron Claus Spreckels building, which with its lofty dome is the most ...![](http://www.e-freetranslation.com/rquot.gif) — Complete Story of the San Francisco Horror • Richard Linthicum
... is the only passage of Ramusio's version, so far as I know, that suggests interpolation from a recent author, as distinguished from mere editorial modification. There is in Barbosa a description of the duello as practised in Canara, which is rather too ...![](http://www.e-freetranslation.com/rquot.gif) — The Travels of Marco Polo, Volume 2 • Marco Polo and Rustichello of Pisa
... still a great deal of misconception of the meaning of Socialism; the ignorance concerning it which is manifested upon every hand is often disheartening, but neither of these puerile misrepresentations is commonly encountered in serious discussion. It is true that the average newspaper editorial confounds Socialism with Anarchism, often enlisting the prejudice which exists against the most violent forms of Anarchism in attacking Socialism, though the two systems of thought are fundamentally opposed to each other; it is likewise true that Socialists ...![](http://www.e-freetranslation.com/rquot.gif) — Socialism - A Summary and Interpretation of Socialist Principles • John Spargo
... editor of these letters and speeches, we feel that we have not done justice to the editorial industry and research which these volumes display. Our space would not permit it. For the same reason we have been unable to quote several instances of vivid narrative, which we had hoped to transfer to our own pages. And as to our main quarrel with him—this ...![](http://www.e-freetranslation.com/rquot.gif) — Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 378, April, 1847 • Various
... the Augustan Reprints in May, 1949. The editorial policy of the Society will continue unchanged. As in the past, the editors will strive to furnish members inexpensive reprints of rare seventeenth and eighteenth ...![](http://www.e-freetranslation.com/rquot.gif) — An Essay on True and Apparent Beauty in which from Settled Principles is Rendered the Grounds for Choosing and Rejecting Epigrams • Pierre Nicole
... say what errand it was that brought him to the place, a strange, large, indeterminate open room, where several of us sat occupied with different sorts of business, but, as it seems to me now, by only a provisional right to the place. Certainly the corner allotted to my own editorial business was of temporary assignment; I was there until we could find a more permanent office. The man had nothing to do with me or with the publishers; he had no manuscript, or plan for an article which he wished to propose ...![](http://www.e-freetranslation.com/rquot.gif) — The Daughter of the Storage - And Other Things in Prose and Verse • William Dean Howells
... like most other editors, is continually persecuted by bores, but recently he was the victim of a peculiarly dastardly attack from a person of this class. While he was sitting in the office of the Patriot, writing an editorial about "Our Grinding Monopolies," he suddenly became conscious of the presence of a fearful smell. He stopped, snuffed the air two or three times, and at last lighted a cigar to fumigate the room. Then he heard footsteps upon the stairs, and as they drew nearer the smell grew stronger. When it ...![](http://www.e-freetranslation.com/rquot.gif) — Elbow-Room - A Novel Without a Plot • Charles Heber Clark (AKA Max Adeler)
... the year 1867, the club met, as it not infrequently did, at the home of Mr. McCulloch. After the meeting Mr. W. B. Taylor, afterward connected with the Smithsonian Institution in an editorial capacity, accompanied by the little man, set out to walk to his home, which I believe was somewhere near the Smithsonian grounds. At any rate, I joined them in their walk, which led through these grounds. A few days previous there ...![](http://www.e-freetranslation.com/rquot.gif) — The Reminiscences of an Astronomer • Simon Newcomb
... the press, too, seems to amount to little, in spite of the fact that the newspapers in New York have freely commented on the valuable work of the branch libraries and have called attention to it both in the news and editorial columns whenever occasion offered. Do the readers of library books in New York shun the public-press, or do they pay scant heed to what ...![](http://www.e-freetranslation.com/rquot.gif) — A Librarian's Open Shelf • Arthur E. Bostwick
... Dixie magazine was started by a stock company in Toombs City, Georgia, there was never but one candidate for its chief editorial position in the minds of its owners. Col. Aquila Telfair was the man for the place. By all the rights of learning, family, reputation, and Southern traditions, he was its foreordained, fit, and logical editor. So, a committee of the patriotic ...![](http://www.e-freetranslation.com/rquot.gif) — Options • O. Henry
... Donald H. Kent, Director of the Bureau of Archives and History, and Mr. William A. Hunter, Chief of the Division of History, who supervised publication; and members of the staff of the Division of History: Mr. Harold L. Myers, Associate Historian and Chief of the Editorial Section, who readied the manuscript for publication; Mrs. Gail M. Gibson, Associate Historian, who prepared the index; and Mr. George R. Beyer, ...![](http://www.e-freetranslation.com/rquot.gif) — The Fair Play Settlers of the West Branch Valley, 1769-1784 - A Study of Frontier Ethnography • George D. Wolf
... morning of life they are rapt by intoxicating visions of some great haberdashery business, beckoned to by the voluptuous enticements of the legal profession, or maybe the Holy Grail they forswear all else to seek is a snug editorial chair. These quests and dreams were not for me. Since I was man I have had but one dream,—namely, Woman. Alas! till this my thirtieth year I have found only women. No! that is disloyal, disloyal to my First Love; for this is sadly true,—that we ...![](http://www.e-freetranslation.com/rquot.gif) — The Quest of the Golden Girl • Richard le Gallienne
... 1856, the late Rev. Joseph Ridgeway, Editorial Secretary of the Society, attended, as a deputation, the anniversary meeting of the Tunbridge Wells Church Missionary Association. There he met a naval officer, Capt. J. C. Prevost, R.N., who had just returned from Vancouver's Island. ...![](http://www.e-freetranslation.com/rquot.gif) — Metlakahtla and the North Pacific Mission • Eugene Stock
... under the caption of "Correction," and sent it to both the Commercial and Louisville Courier. It was inserted, with the following editorial note: ...![](http://www.e-freetranslation.com/rquot.gif) — A Woman's Life-Work - Labors and Experiences • Laura S. Haviland
... a long discussion, but one can test any book or newspaper editorial at his leisure and see whether the writer puts you off with abstractions—Americanism, Bolshevism, public welfare, liberty, national honor, religion, morality, good taste, rights of man, science, reason, error—or, ...![](http://www.e-freetranslation.com/rquot.gif) — The Mind in the Making - The Relation of Intelligence to Social Reform • James Harvey Robinson
... things in this religious paper, which we think are calculated to do immense mischief. This editorial article "would utter its remonstrance against all violent resistance to the execution of the Law." Indeed! Very quiet and peaceful, after having talked about being "fully prepared for defense"—about death "on the wayside, at the threshold and on the gallows"—about ...![](http://www.e-freetranslation.com/rquot.gif) — The Religious Duty of Obedience to Law • Ichabod S. Spencer
... Sugar; Sugar is its God, its Mokanna, and (incidentally) we may remark that Rum is a product resulting from the manufacture of the saccharine plant, and we fear that many samples of this aromatic liquid may have found their way into the editorial sanctum of our esteemed and valued contemporary in Mackay. At least, we judge so when a dirty, ill-smelling mud bank is compared with one of the most noble evidences of God's ...![](http://www.e-freetranslation.com/rquot.gif) — Tom Gerrard - 1904 • Louis Becke
... born in Paris, April 3, 1848, the son of an architect. He was destined for the Bar, but was early attracted by journalism and literature. Being a lawyer it was not difficult for him to join the editorial staff of Le Pays, and later Le Constitutionnel. This was soon after the Franco-German War. His romances, since collected under the title 'Batailles de la Vie', appeared first in 'Le Figaro, L'Illustration, ...![](http://www.e-freetranslation.com/rquot.gif) — Serge Panine, Complete • Georges Ohnet
... make available inexpensive reprints (usually facsimile reproductions) of rare seventeenth and eighteenth century works. The editorial policy of the Society continues unchanged. As in the past, the editors welcome suggestions concerning publications. All income of the Society is devoted to defraying ...![](http://www.e-freetranslation.com/rquot.gif) — The City Bride (1696) - Or The Merry Cuckold • Joseph Harris
... information; taken a short turn at war in the Crimea, in 1853, as a private in the ranks of the French army; seen service for a few months in the Brazilian navy, from which he had brought a severe wound as a flattering testimonial. He was at that time located in New York as an editorial contributor and occasional "special correspondent" of a leading newspaper. He had seen much of life—tasted much of its pains and pleasures—perhaps thought more than either; and though with a little too much of a propensity for late hours and those long stories which would grow out ...![](http://www.e-freetranslation.com/rquot.gif) — Shoulder-Straps - A Novel of New York and the Army, 1862 • Henry Morford
... with so much of quiet humour, and bristling with such rasping sarcasm and penetrating invective, that they were read as an intellectual luxury even by men who regarded as utterly wild and wicked the sentiments they conveyed. The first editorial utterance in this journal consisted of a letter from Mr. Mitchel to the Viceroy, in which that functionary was addressed as "The Right Hon. the Earl of Clarendon, Englishman, calling himself her Majesty's Lord Lieutenant-General and General ...![](http://www.e-freetranslation.com/rquot.gif) — Speeches from the Dock, Part I • Various
... two fairy stories for your editorial consideration. They are not intended to form part of "The Brownies" book—they are an experiment on my part, and I do not mean to ...![](http://www.e-freetranslation.com/rquot.gif) — Juliana Horatia Ewing And Her Books • Horatia K. F. Eden
... newspaper in the city. He had fortunately been familiar with the English language before he left home, and by the strength of his will he conquered all difficulties. At the end of two years he became attached to the editorial staff; new ambitious hopes, hitherto foreign to his mind, awoke within him; and with joyous tumult of heart he saw life opening its wide vistas before him, and he labored on manfully to repair the losses of the ...![](http://www.e-freetranslation.com/rquot.gif) — A Good-For-Nothing - 1876 • Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen
... "excellent hostelry conducted by the Misses Dowd," as well as a paragraph congratulating the readers of the Sun on the "scoop" that paper had obtained over the "alleged" newspapers up at the county seat. "If you want the news, read the Sun," was the slogan at the top of the editorial column on the second page, followed by a line in parenthesis: ("If you want the Sun, don't put off till tomorrow what you can do today. Price Three Dollars a Year ...![](http://www.e-freetranslation.com/rquot.gif) — Quill's Window • George Barr McCutcheon
... developed into a personage, as much a personage as a grand-opera prima donna on tour. His successes were talked over in clubs. His name came to be known to the men in the street. His "camera eye" was now and then mentioned by the scientists. His unblemished record was referred to in an occasional editorial. When an ex-police reporter came to him, asking him to father a macaronic volume bearing the title "Criminals of America," Blake not only added his name to the title page, but advanced three hundred dollars to ...![](http://www.e-freetranslation.com/rquot.gif) — Never-Fail Blake • Arthur Stringer
... Friend Reader,—don't be alarmed. The personal pronouns "I" and "you" give place in succeeding chapters to the more congenial editorial "we." I couldn't resist the temptation to enjoy one brief spell of intimacy just for the sake of good acquaintance. Have ...![](http://www.e-freetranslation.com/rquot.gif) — Laugh and Live • Douglas Fairbanks
... pictures decorated the walls, mostly black and white drawings by artists who were so unfortunate as to be compelled to work for the Sponge on the cheap. Magazines and papers were littered all about, chiefly American in their origin, for Shorely had been brought up in the editorial school which teaches that it is cheaper to steal from a foreign publication than waste good money on original contributions. You clipped out the story; changed New York to London; Boston or Philadelphia to Manchester or Liverpool, and there ...![](http://www.e-freetranslation.com/rquot.gif) — Revenge! • by Robert Barr
... organize a publicity bureau, independently of the two dominant political parties, to be in charge of a certain New York journalist who made a business of such affairs, who was to be paid a sum commensurate with the emergency. He was to have carte blanche, even in the editorial columns of our newspapers. He was also to flood the city with "literature." We had fought many wars before this, and we planned our campaign precisely as though we were dealing with one of those rebellions in the realm of finance of which I have given an instance. But now the war chest ...![](http://www.e-freetranslation.com/rquot.gif) — The Crossing • Winston Churchill
... programme—in plain words, of the Emperor himself—against a minority of 1,500,000. But among the 1,500,000 were the old throne-shakers-those who compose and those who lead the mob of Paris. On the 14th, as Rameau was about to quit the editorial bureau of his printing-office, a note was brought in to him which strongly excited his nervous system. It contained a request to see him forthwith, signed by those two distinguished foreign members of the Secret Council of Ten, ...![](http://www.e-freetranslation.com/rquot.gif) — The Parisians, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton
... the public interest to place before the people the name of General Hercule Mossy de Villivicencio. No explanation was considered necessary. All had been done in strict accordance with time-honored customs, and if any one did not know it it was his own fault. No eulogium was to follow, no editorial indorsement. The two announcements were destined to stand next morning, one on the English side and one on the French, in severe simplicity, to be greeted with profound gratification by a few old gentlemen in blue cottonade, and by roars of laughter ...![](http://www.e-freetranslation.com/rquot.gif) — Old Creole Days • George Washington Cable
... the Personal Liberty bill through," said Waldemar, scrawling a head on his completed editorial, with one eye on the clock, which pointed ...![](http://www.e-freetranslation.com/rquot.gif) — Average Jones • Samuel Hopkins Adams
... you shall behold the editorial laundresses of New-York city having a washy time of it all around. There is a, shriek of objurgation in the air, and a flutter of soiled linen on the breeze. Granny MARBLE, to the extreme left of the picture, clenches her fists over ...![](http://www.e-freetranslation.com/rquot.gif) — Punchinello, Vol. 1, No. 9, May 28, 1870 • Various
... capitalistic interests. The extremes of yellow journalism and of avowedly capitalistic journalism, meet in a preference for salacious or merely shocking news, and in a predilection for blatant, sophistical, or merely nugatory and time-serving editorial expressions. Between the two really allied types of newspapers are a few which exercise a decent censorship over questionable news, and habitually indulge in the luxury of sincere editorial opinion. There are some exceptions to the rule. In our ...![](http://www.e-freetranslation.com/rquot.gif) — The Unpopular Review, Volume II Number 3 • Various
... moment, Eden," said the other. "I'm afraid you do not quite know yet what the matter is all about. Allow me to look at the paper again." Taking it, he found and asked his friend to read a rather long editorial paragraph. ...![](http://www.e-freetranslation.com/rquot.gif) — Fan • Henry Harford
... to its own and Blount faced to the right, walking rapidly until he turned in at the foot of the worn double flight of stairs leading to the editorial rooms of The Plainsman. Blenkinsop, the editor, a lean, haggard man with a sallow face, coarse black hair worn always a little longer than the prevailing cut, and deep-set, gloomy eyes, was at ...![](http://www.e-freetranslation.com/rquot.gif) — The Honorable Senator Sage-Brush • Francis Lynde
... delighting in that daughter's accomplishments of drawing and botany, to which may be added a zeal for the writing of stories which does not seem, judging from the many manuscripts in her handwriting that I have burnt, to have received much editorial encouragement. In short, Henrietta was not domesticated. But just as I have proved in preceding chapters that Borrow was happy in his married life, so I would urge that as far as a somewhat disappointed career would permit to the sadly bereaved author he was happy in his family circle to ...![](http://www.e-freetranslation.com/rquot.gif) — George Borrow and His Circle - Wherein May Be Found Many Hitherto Unpublished Letters Of - Borrow And His Friends • Clement King Shorter
... apparently, opened her mouth as well, although to do that required no great urging at any time. She went on to preach the glories of the "Voice," and concluded by reading an editorial which, like Mrs. Lake's addresses at Chapter meetings, contained a great many words and, to the captain's mind, ...![](http://www.e-freetranslation.com/rquot.gif) — Cap'n Dan's Daughter • Joseph C. Lincoln
... paper which he named "The Tidings"—"an Instrument for the Spreading of Proper New Arts and Philosophies, and for the Indication and Diffusion of What Haps and Hearsays Soever Are Meet for Chronicling Withal." This journal was of unpretentious appearance, and its editorial tone was modest to a degree. The size of the paper was eight by twelve inches, four pages, with two columns to the page. The type used in the printing was large and coarse, but the paper and ink seem to have ...![](http://www.e-freetranslation.com/rquot.gif) — Eugene Field, A Study In Heredity And Contradictions - Vol. I • Slason Thompson
... to the shorthand man, that was all. But a generous sub-editorial fraternity understood the speech differently; and newspaper readers doubtless came to the conclusion that oratory must now be added to the other ...![](http://www.e-freetranslation.com/rquot.gif) — Jan - A Dog and a Romance • A. J. Dawson |