Word: echoing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...welcomed with reservations by governments and with enthusiasm by peoples, it has been killed by the appearance in increasing quantity of the details of the Anglo-French naval agreement and the notes which accompanied that. First--the secrecy attending the agreement; and latest--the unofficial official publication in the Echo de Paris on October 4 of a "summary, exact as possible" of the notes exchanged between the French and British governments in July. The results are these: the British government has assented to the French thesis that trained soldiers in reserve are not soldiers but "reservists" --not to be counted...
...more humbly, he might have been content to watch, listen, report. Reportorial newspaper labels: Observer, Recorder, Review, Eye, Optic, Chronicle, Argus, Register, Messenger, Gazette, Herald, Telegram, Journal, Expositor, Reporter, Truth, Echo, Outlook, Spectator, Ledger, Bulletin, Mirror, News, Press...
...wrath of Publisher Ochs found a ready echo from a rival, Ralph Pulitzer, publisher of the New York World. Publisher Pulitzer produced records. Said he, hotly: "The World has deliberately thrown away . . . will continue to throw away . . . millions of dollars of advertising by attacking for the public good various interests." He flung a contemptuous denial across the sea to M. Siegfried: "With the exception of a few blackguardly sheets . . . very precisely known . . . the press does not prostitute itself...
Therefore Mr. Herrick must have received with pain, last week, a thoroughgoing flaying administered by M. Andre Geraud, famed as "Pertinax," redoubtable Foreign Editor of L'Echo de Paris. Seizing upon a rumor that the Ambassador was about to resign, "Pertinax" apostrophized...
...Modesty is always desirable; the truly great invariably seem to possess it. We admire the old athlete who keeps his golden emblems in his pocket or at home, rather than dangling from his watch-chain. Which reminds one--have you ever seen a P.B.K. man with a wrist watch? Echo answers 'Watch...