Word: herald
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Before the bureau was organized, true figures on a publication's circulation were seldom available. Probably the first attempt to get an impartial audit of a publication's circulation was back in 1847, when the New York Tribune challenged the New York Herald as to which had the larger circulation. The rival publishers finally selected two impartial judges to settle the controversy, and the judges went to work on their audit. Their method: a careful count of the amount of newsprint used by each paper over a four-week period. When the count was completed, circulation title went...
...fritters and porcupine seethed in almond milk, and their halls were strewed with cartloads of rose petals. The Plantagenets' brides were not so hot, but their mistresses were every bit as toothsome as the ginger fritters. Such a dish was Katherine de Roet, the daughter of an obscure herald. She had scarcely settled down at the court of Edward III when she was nearly raped by a dour Saxon knight. The gay John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster, later prominent in Shakespeare ("Live in thy shame, but die not shame with thee"), rescued Katherine and saw her safely married...
JOHN KNIGHT, publisher of four dailies (Chicago Daily News, Akron Beacon-Journal, Detroit Free Press, Miami Herald), in his "Editor's Notebook...
Doghouse. In Dallas, the Times Herald ran an unsigned classified ad: "My husband's $50 Scotties for a lot less. If he answers, hang...
...from a good movie, the next was dedicated to the principle that a heavily advertised epithet would be a sure attraction, particularly when surrounded by the glamor of topical heroism. So for weeks a bass voice, in thrilling tones, kept shouting "Retreat, Hell" over the radio to herald a really inferior war picture. After Retreat, Hell came the Miracle and The Moon Is Blue. Now Washington Street marquees bear a revolting resemblance to the walls of a grammar school locker room...