"Newsy" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... said Harvey through his chattering teeth. For a moment he felt distinctly proud and important. So shrewd a judge of humanity as a New York "newsy" had taken him to be a man of parts. For awhile he had been distressed by the fear, almost the conviction, that he was regarded by all ...
— What's-His-Name • George Barr McCutcheon
... off, while the two boys remained comparing notes and lost in wonder at the result. "Sump'n slipped a cog in the Newsy, sure," said the first boy. But he couldn't tell why, and ran over to the ...
— In His Steps • Charles M. Sheldon
... convince editors of the public interest in a newsy, readable New York literary letter, and he prevailed upon the editor of the New York Star to allow him to supplement the book reviews of George Parsons Lathrop in that paper by a column of literary chat called "Literary Leaves." For a number of weeks he continued to write ...
— The Americanization of Edward Bok - The Autobiography of a Dutch Boy Fifty Years After • Edward William Bok
... are about such things, and I didn't | |want the boy to get in trouble, and so I threw on a | |shawl and walked over through Chambers Street toward| |the river to find him. He was standing on a corner | |some place down there near the bridge clapping time | |with his hands for a little newsy that was dancing; | |but he stopped clapping, struck, Gene did, when he | |saw me. He laughed when I handed him the little book| |and told that was why I'd searched for him, patting | |me on the shoulder when he laughed—patting me on | |the shoulder. ...
— News Writing - The Gathering , Handling and Writing of News Stories • M. Lyle Spencer
... in the pine-woods and broom-sedge fields adjacent thereto. He had in his gripsack two manuscript novels of the adventures in Picardy of one Gaston Laboulaye, Vicompte de Montrepos, in the year 1329. That's nothing. We all do that. And some day when we make a hit with the little sketch about a newsy and his lame dog, the editor prints the other one for us—or "on us," as the saying is—and then—and then we have to get a big valise and peddle those patent air-draft gas burners. At $1.25 ...
— The Voice of the City • O. Henry |
