Word: heraldic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Mark Sullivan, political observer, writes for Republican papers, at present for The New York Herald-Tribune...
...Chauncey M. Depew, onetime ubiquitous, silver-tongued herald of the Republican Party, said (of Coolidge) : "His own platform and his own campaign" ; (of Lieutenant Colonel Theodore Roosevelt) : "The same sound timber in the son as in the honored sire...
...seen as well as heard. He chats with his audience, gestures at them, boasts to them, giggles with them, pursues the final diminuendo of a Chopin Prelude under the piano, performs merry little antics for the benefit of a delighted public. Lawrence Gilman, critic for The New York Herald Tribune, speaks of "cretinous* capers...
...more than approached The Times in solidity. The Chicago Daily News, however, with 48 pages was large enough to be a considerable burden to a newsboy; The Chicago Tribune had 36 with which to swell a business man's pocket; The New York World and The New York Herald-Tribune each provided 32 for the littering of breakfast tables, Pullmans or wherenot. Other papers whose bulk did not forbid their being folded by an active man in any conveniently clear space were The Kansas City Star with 30 and The Boston Transcript with...
...five Presidents-McKinley, Roosevelt, Taft, Wilson, Harding, four of whom are now dead-he started his career as a caterer, later selling the chain of restaurants, which he controlled, and entering the newspaper field in Chicago. He owned and edited at different times the Chicago Inter-Ocean, Times-Herald, Record-Herald, Evening Post. His services to the Republican cause brought him into contact with many a famed man, made it possible for him-for he never accepted an office-to become great by refusing greatness, notorious while shunning noitoriety. A genial, meagre, shrewd little man, he had a talent...