Word: hearstly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Perceiving Funnyman Rogers' success, Funnyman Eddie Cantor, also of the Follies, and Publisher William Randolph Hearst, last week made known that Cantor would comment daily on the news through Bell Syndicate. To show how he could newscrack, Funnyman Cantor issued the following...
...columns of figures at the tip of his tongue. Speaking with the authority of a half-billion-dollar corporation, he was ready to prove his point. A spur to his arguments was the uncomfortable fact that I. P. & P. had a four-year contract to supply Publisher William Randolph Hearst with newsprint at a price range of $50 to $55 a ton, and breaking a contract with Publisher Hearst is a difficult matter...
...This," wrote Hearst Colyumist Arthur Brisbane one day last week, "is written at Middleburg, Va., where you find the finest hunting country, with many packs of hounds, the best horses and the best girls' school in the land...
...most of the millions who read the Hearst press the last phrase probably meant nothing. To Miss Charlotte Haxall Noland it was, though Colyumist Brisbane is notoriously free with his superlatives, an accolade. The Best Girls' School in the Land, her creation, is only 15 years old. Its name is Foxcroft. Only 75 girls may go there at a time, tuition $2,500 each per annum. Foxcroft has an elite waiting list...
Publisher Hearst was just 24 hours late. President Hoover had already made a move no less Hooveresque than Rooseveltian...