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Think of Crass digging for head-lines." St. George rose abruptly. Amory was delicious, especially his drawl; but there were times "Print it," he exclaimed, "you might as well try to print the absolute." Amory nodded. "Oh, if you're going to be Neoplatonic," he said, "I'm off to hum an Orphic hymn. Isn't it about time for the prince? I want to get out with the camera, while the light is good."
Four days later, when the evening paper appeared with enormous head-lines announcing the murder of Mademoiselle Stangerson, the letters in the advertisement mechanically recurred to me.
Cranston raised the weight, expecting to find some more memoranda concerning his precious books, but was not entirely surprised to read, in glaring head-lines, "The Wage-Worker's Weapon," followed by some vehement lines denunciatory of capital, monopoly, "pampered palates in palatial homes, boodle-burdened, beer-bloated legislators," etc., the sort of alliterative and inflammatory composition which, distributed in the columns of the papers of the Alarm and Arbeiter Zeitung stamp, was read aloud over the evening pipes and beer to knots of applauding men, mostly tramps and idlers, in a thousand groggeries throughout the bustling city.
Early, is my old chum, Norris, who has come West to be on the editorial staff of the Star." "The Star? It is the symbol of illumination. Is then your Star devoted to the enlightenment of mankind?" asked Ram Juna, transferring his fixed gaze. "In a sense yes," Norris faltered with a swift guilty recollection of certain head-lines in last night's edition. "He who writes must think.
Lee looked up from his Sunday paper all the men except young Willy Eddy were provided with Sunday papers; he waited patiently for a spare page finished and thrown aside by another. Besides the odors of soap and perfumed oils and bay-rum and tobacco-smoke, that filled the little place, was the redolence of fresh newspapers, staring with violent head-lines, and as full of rustle as a forest.
"I'll tolerate such language from no man!" he exclaimed. "I wish you good morning, sir!" And he was on his way to the door. "Come back!" commanded Dumont. And Giddings, the habit of implicit obedience to that voice still strong upon him, hesitated and half turned. Dumont was more impressed with the truth of the cataclysm by Giddings' revolt than by the newspaper head-lines or by Giddings' words.
He paused, and stood leaning on the top of the desk, his glance averted. "Wright says you wish to see me," he began. "Yes, sit down; pull that chair up." Saunders complied, his eyes on the floor. "I suppose you've seen the morning paper?" Mostyn asked. "You mean the announcement of your " "Yes, of course." "I saw the head-lines. I didn't read it through." Silence crept between the two men.
If we think of Americans as too capable of cynical levity it is largely because of these head-lines, which are always as epigrammatic as possible, always light-hearted, often facetious, and often cruel.
The first was black with old head-lines: CRIME IN DARK HOLLOW Algernon Etheridge, One of Our Most Esteemed Citizens, Waylaid and Murdered at Long Bridge. The Stick With Which the Crime was Committed Easily Traced to Its Owner. The Landlord of Claymore Tavern in the Toils. He Denies His Guilt But Submits Sullenly to Arrest. Particulars followed.
It took some hours for it to seep in, even after that, and for years I recalled every word of the damned lie as if it had been branded on me with hot irons. They called it a shocking crime, the most brutal murder California had ever known, and in the head-lines was my name in letters that struck me between the eyes like a hammer. Mrs.
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