Word: hearstly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Coincidently, the first important biography of Hearst has appeared.* It depicts Hearst as a onetime Harvard student who "tried manfully to drink beer," as a devoted husband, "a keen student of the Bible," and, through his newspapers, "a world force," a man who "has shortened by a generation certain sorely needed social and political reforms . . . has awakened the public consciousness of the average citizen...
Some day, probably after Hearst has passed to the never-never land, his complete biography will be written. And it will contain many an amazing fact which Writer Winkler has, either deliberately or unknowingly, omitted...
...Should anything untoward happen to William Randolph Hearst, the staffs of the various Hearst papers would be running about like ants, for their morgues contain no biography of their owner. The proprietor has given orders that no biography of himself be prepared...
...Hearst is a man of orderly disorder. He transacts most of his business by telephone and telegraph. He maintains no personal letter-file. His office is anywhere and everywhere he happens to be. He scribbles on the backs of envelopes, scraps of paper. He is an extremely indolent correspondent. In New York he has half a dozen luxuriantly appointed 'hideouts' to which he may repair when he desires privacy...
...late Senator George Hearst, father of William Randolph, grizzly forty-niner, poker player, breeder of race horses and cattle, owned a little newspaper, the San Francisco Examiner, which he regarded as a worthless joke. When Will returned from Harvard, ousted because of boyish pranks, he asked his father to give him the Examiner, and got it. Sensational features and crusades for the masses against "black" capitalists-these things young Hearst had observed in the methods of Joseph Pulitzer of the New York World; and he practiced them in San Francisco. Later, in 1895, when his father left...