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Definition of City room
1. Noun. The editorial department of a newspaper that edits the local news.
Lexicographical Neighbors of City Room
Literary usage of City room
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. New York Nocturnes and Other Poems by Sir Charles George Douglas Roberts (1898)
"In a city room O city night of noises and alarms, Your lights may flare, your
cables clang and rush, But in the sanctuary of my love's arms Your blinding ..."
2. News Writing, the Gathering, Handling and Writing of News Stories by Matthew Lyle Spencer (1917)
"The city room. — The city room is the place where a reporter presents himself
for work the first day. It is impossible to give an exact description of this ..."
3. The Story of the Sun, New York, 1833-1918: New York, 1833-1918 by Frank Michael O'Brien (1918)
"But the city room's only ornaments were men and their genius. ... Six desks
handled all the news-matter in the old city room of the Sun. ..."
4. Literary News by L. Pylodet, Augusta Harriet (Garrigue) Leypoldt (1898)
"Tales of the city room. OUT of one newspaper woman's bountiful ... The " Tales
of the city room" have a distinctive charm ; they speak of a woman's ..."
5. A Book about Myself by Theodore Dreiser (1922)
""See Mr. Mitchell in the city-room, Mr. Mitchell—urn, yuss. Your salary will
be—um—um—twenty dollars to begin with" (he was chewing a cigar and mumbled his ..."
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