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And this, a leaderette: Yesterday at a meeting of the Parks Committee of the London County Council it was unanimously resolved to recommend at the next meeting of the Council that the statue of Shakespeare in Leicester Square should be removed.
Just look about. Oh, conf ! Then the editor rang a bell. 'Send Mr. Heeky to me, quick! he commanded the messenger-boy. 'I'm just finishing that leaderette, began Mr. Heeley, when he obeyed the summons. Mr. Heeley was a young man who had published a book of verse. 'Never mind the leaderette, said the editor.
"Well, you've got a baronet for a father now, my girl" to be accurate he called it a "bart." he said puffing himself out like a great toad before the fire, as he threw down the Daily News in which his name was icily ignored in a spiteful leaderette about the Honours List, upon the top of The Times, The Standard, and The Morning Post. "Oh!" said Isobel in an interested voice and paused.
Reay caught his enquiring glance and laughed again. "You look as if you wanted to know more about me, old David!" he said gaily "So you shall! I've nothing to conceal! As I tell you I was 'kicked off' out of journalism my fault being that I published a leaderette exposing a mean 'deal' on the part of a certain city plutocrat. I didn't know the rascal had shares in the paper.
Lord Bobby was there from Government House. Lord Bobby always accompanied the talent, who were very kind to him. He was talking, when Hilda arrived, to the editor of the Indian Empire, who wanted to find out the date of Her Excellency's fancy-dress party for children, in order that he might make a leaderette of it; but Lord Bobby couldn't remember had to promise to drop him a line.
You got a black eye out of him, and that's for publication. We can't have this reign of terror, Mr. Malone. We must bring the man to his bearings. I'll have a leaderette on him to-morrow that will raise a blister. Just give me the material and I will engage to brand the fellow for ever. Professor Munchausen how's that for an inset headline?
The United Ireland of December 6, 1884, in a characteristic leaderette, headed 'A very suspicious affair, observes: 'We should like to know by what right the newspapers speak of the affair as "a dynamite outrage"? A very curious surmise has been put forward locally, namely, that the house had been stricken by lightning.
"'By Jove! said the Sub, 'couldn't have happened at a better time either' and then he sat down and dashed off a leaderette, in which he dwelt upon the pain and regret the paper felt at having to announce the disaster, and drew attention to the exceptionally harrowing account provided by the energy and talent of 'our special reporter."
From Romain Rolland's pamphlet "Above the Battlefield," Cambridge, 1914. The following leaderette is from the Glasgow Evening Citizen for the 15th of January: "In business patriotism does not enter. Insistently the pocket comes first.
It too, gave him nearly a column, headed 'Disgraceful Scene at Kenningford'. There was also a leaderette on the subject. The leaderette said so exactly what Mr Bickersdyke thought himself that for a moment he was soothed. Then the thought of his grievance returned, and he pressed the bell. 'Send Mr Smith to me, he said. William, the messenger, proceeded to inform Psmith of the summons.
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