"The Purple Wig," The Wisdom of Father Brown (1914) - Chesterton, Gilbert Keith | WIST Quotations
I know that journalism largely consists in saying, "Lord Jones Dead" to people who never knew that Lord Jones was alive. While the quoted phrase uses a headline style, omitting the article, the vast majority of copies of it read "Lord Jones is dead." Other paraphrases: "Journalism is there to…
