George seldes in fact in a sentence
In Fact: For the Millions Who Want a Free Press..
Books have changed men's lives. And it is probably true that one line in a book _ a profound truth, one the reader recognizes is meant for him _ may be as effective.
Years before I believed, rightly or wrongly, that newspaper work meant freedom of the individual, as well as escape from the conventional world, I read the sage of Walden's most generally accepted great truism: "The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation." A summing up of the whole human tragedy, la comedie humaine , the human situation.
Under the masthead of "In fact" was the line, "An Antidote for Falsehood in the Daily Press." Seldes carryed on the muckraking traditions of Ida.
I was determined never to be a member of the silent desperate majority.
The time was long before the "second oldest profession" was led out of the red light district of American free enterprise into the green pastures of guild unionism.
Yet there prevailed among newspapermen a feeling of emancipation, and also one of false superiority; we stood high and disdainful above the polloi abou