His father, who had died young, had filled a small diplomatic post, and it had been intended that the son should follow the same career; but an insatiable taste for letters had thrown the young man into
journalism, then into authorship (apparently unsuccessful), and at length--after other experiments and vicissitudes which he spared his listener--into tutoring English youths in Switzerland.
Of course I don't believe in the old legend about James I; and as for you, you don't believe in anything, not even in
journalism. The legend, you'll probably remember, was about the blackest business in English history--the poisoning of Overbury by that witch's cat Frances Howard, and the quite mysterious terror which forced the King to pardon the murderers.
The function I perform on this paper is hardly that of instructor in a school of
journalism."
You could rise in
journalism and make a name for yourself.
He was a graduate of the university, had gone in for
journalism, and was then serving his apprenticeship as reporter on the most influential of the three newspapers.
Of late I had been training him for
journalism, for the time seemed about right for a start in the newspaper line; nothing big, but just a small weekly for experimental circulation in my civilization- nurseries.
He had tried
journalism, he tried lecturing, he planned books which were never written.
Defoe's influence in helping to shape modern
journalism and modern every-day English style was large; but the achievement which has given him world-wide fame came late in life.
That kind of police briskness rather more reminds me of my native land than German
journalism does.
Papa was to do with
journalism, but is rheumatic and has retired.
The wench I should have been courting now was
journalism, that grisette of literature who has a smile and a hand for all beginners, welcoming them at the threshold, teaching them so much that is worth knowing, introducing them to the other lady whom they have worshipped from afar, showing them even how to woo her, and then bidding them a bright God-speed - he were an ingrate who, having had her joyous companionship, no longer flings her a kiss as they pass.
Some time after this I was put in charge of the law news of the "Cri du Boulevard." My entry into
journalism could not but strengthen the ties which united me to Rouletabille.