"Linotype" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... answered Mr. Fraser, "are mechanical. Linotype is a resuscitator of reputations. Wait till you see the HERALD, beginning next week—that is if you're with us—that is," and his voice hardened slightly, "if you haven't got too many ideas yourself about how things ought to ...
— Flappers and Philosophers • F. Scott Fitzgerald
... writes it. Some of the runners never come to the office. They receive their assignments by telephone, and their salaries by mail. There are even a few who are allowed to telephone their news directly to a swift linotype operator, who clicks it into type on his machine, without the scratch of a pencil. This, of course, is the ideal method of news-gathering, which is ...
— The History of the Telephone • Herbert N. Casson
... hand and smoke his tobacco and try to borrow money. His sanctum became the fashionable lounge of the Ballybun elite. A great gap was caused in the front of the paper amongst the best paying advertisements by Kelly's trying to clean his pipe with part of the linotype machine. Casey noticed this, and further attributed the matter to the Censor, whom he attacked vigorously in a leading article for trying to throttle the safety-valve of trade by inoculating the thin end of the wedge; he will do this again, he added, at his own peril. ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 153, Dec. 12, 1917 • Various |
