Word: davises
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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In the next 26 years Reporter Davis seemed to visit every country and to cover every war-at $1,000 a week plus expenses. In England Davis hobbed so intimately with the nobs that the P.M., Arthur Balfour, used to drop by at his rooms for a shank-of-the...
Davis was a brilliant descriptive reporter with a breezy, intimate flow of language and a sensual precision of phrase. Bullets whirred past him like "rustling silk," shrapnel made "the jarring sound of telephone wires when someone strikes the pole." Politically he was naive and jingoistic. Personally he was humane and...
There was a note of moral uplift in everything he wrote, and his friends often had a hard time eluding his efforts to improve them. Another critic wrote: "He has an unaffected natural talent for praising courage, chivalry and undemonstrativeness in words which inspire distaste for these good things. Have...
Boy scout or not, Davis had a genius for the self-advertising gesture. What's more, he was smug-a stuffed shirt, loaded with medals, who found far too many opportunities to deplore the young women who gushed over poor, handsome him. "I am," he concluded comfortably, "too attractive...
The Platonic Wife. The fact is, says Author Langford, that though the girls certainly gushed, they seldom did anything more than that-and neither did he. His mother seems to have been at the bottom of the trouble. Davis wrote her a long, detailed letter almost every day of his...