Word: hearstly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...these many moons the Hearst papers have been crying the need of a third party. There is need of a third party. A third party, sponsored and financed by Mr. Hearst, would be a blessing to the American people, but not perhaps in exactly the way Mr. Hearst imagines...
...shame to name a thing a "problem" in these days of thousands of "vital problems," but the octopus journalist is certainly eligible for this title. Ten million persons are said to buy his papers daily. This particular problem is to ascertain how many persons, besides Mr. Hearst, take Mr. Hearst seriously. The question is how many people are being fooled how much of the time...
...that there is hostile feeling in Great Britain against this country. After the Gerry bill it would indeed be surprising if there were not some hostile feeling against this country. Unfortunately, however, Mr. McSweeney cites several passages from Horatio Bottomely's "John Bull." The recollection that Bottomely is the Hearst of England is sufficient to discount these passages to their negligible value...
...thoroughly exposed. But he has one more chance for that publicity he craves. Let him marry a laundress and set up a delicatessen store in New Rochelle, N. Y. The resultant bankruptcy and divorce proceedings will figure largely in the journals of his old well-wisher, Herr Hearst. For he will never attain prominence as a "second story" man. He lacks the necessary imagination, or else, since nobody loves him, he can continue to go out into the garden--and saw wood...
...this stage of the game may not ignore. It is illustrated not only by the sincere though fantastic program of the "Committee of Forty-Eight," but by the probably less sincere and less fantastic Non-Partisan League, and by the palpably insincere and dangerous machinations of William Randolph Hearst. It is the tendency, somewhat justified, we must grant, to regard the "old-line" parties as having ceased to fulfill any salutary political functions, and to regard the formation of a new and powerful "third party" as the logical means of forcing a political realignment...