newspaper-writer's

Updated: April 30, 2025

Perhaps kind women who are misled by the newspaper-writer's brisk babblement may like to know what that means, so I give the words of the best eyewitness that ever gazed on warfare. He took down his notes by the light of burning wood, and he had no time to think of grammar. All his words were written like mere convulsive cries, but their main effect is too vivid to be altered.

James Runciman - The Ethics of Drink and Other Social Questions: Joints In Our Social Armour