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I firmly believe that I'd make a good newspaper woman, if such a thing had ever been heard of in Aylmer." "That you would. You've twice as much knack in that line as I have. You seem to know by instinct just what to leave out and put in. I never do, and Harmer has to blue-pencil my copy mercilessly.
I know all Frieda's opinions. If they are favorable, she gives them out plainly, and if they aren't she keeps still, so it's no work to guess at them. I wish I could do like she does!" she added, with a sudden earnest tone in her voice. "I'll blue-pencil all your reportings, if you use such grammar as 'like she does!" said Alice sternly.
She gasped: "Oh ... do you really " "I want the truth, please, without quibbling." The voice was harsh and cold, and inexorably compelling. "Why were those paragraphs not shown to me?" She winked away her tears. "Because I was sure you'd blue-pencil them out of existence. And a genuine bit of news is such a roc's egg in these times of scarcity." "Genuine!" There was incredulity in the tone.
The total attribute of the blue-pencil man is diplomacy. But while the motion pictures come out every day, they get their discipline months afterwards in the legislation that insists on everything but tact.
"Collectors will pay fancy prices for copies of that same little siege newspaper, at auctions yet to be." "I've thought of that," she confessed. "But, oh! I could make it so much more spicy if you'd only give me a freer hand." His hazel eyes had a smile in them. "I know you think me an editorial martinet." "You blue-pencil out of my poor paragraphs everything that's interesting."
He is always smiling, cheerful, always amusing, but when the dignity of his official position is threatened he can be serious enough. When he was chargé d'affaires in Havana a young Cuban journalist assaulted him. That journalist is still in jail. In Brussels a German officer tried to blue-pencil a cable Gibson was sending to the State Department.
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