City Editor

Mr. Sloan's journal, his levity being offset by the sobriety of Mr. Sloan, who was assistant city-editor. ❋ Various (N/A)

Men, as a general thing, who fail in the poetry line, yellow-colored novel line, sensation, drama line, city-editor line, and finally fall back on agriculture as a temporary reprieve from the poorhouse. ❋ Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 (1922)

Men, as a general thing, who fail in the poetry line, yellow-coloured novel line, sensation-drama line, city-editor line, and finally fall back on agriculture as a temporary reprieve from the poorhouse. ❋ Harold Begbie (1900)

Men, as a general thing, who fail in the poetry line, yellow-colored novel line, sensation-drama line, city-editor line, and finally fall back on agriculture as a temporary reprieve from the poor-house. ❋ Mark Twain (1872)

And while I’ve occasionally slogged ahead, convincing myself that murk was implicit in my theme, I’ve never doubted the rightness of her principles and never regretted for an instant the fact I found in her as hardnosed an early reader as any suspendered city-editor from the grand dead days of American papers. ❋ REYNOLDS PRICE (1988)