Word: heralding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...impartial civilian it was clear that both the accused had acted from commendable motives in complaining against a superior whose conduct had been well nigh unbearable. This view was taken by practically the entire London press, last week, including the usually antithetical Conservative Daily Telegraph and Laborite Daily Herald. At Gibraltar, however, the Court held to the unwritten law of Navy discipline and found both the accused "guilty." Both were sentenced to lose their active commands and to go on half pay until the Admiralty shall see fit to order them once more to active service. Cried the Telegraph...
There is no variation of critical opinion concerning the St. Matthew Passion. "The deepest expression of devotional feeling that the art of music affords," is the description which critics attempt to elaborate. Lawrence Gilman, able critic of the N. Y. Herald-Tribune, mentioned "pages of sorrowful, solacing tenderness, with their transported beauty, their touching devoutness, their measureless humanity...
Editor Arthur Hendrick Vandenberg of the Grand Rapids Herald, 44-year-old Republican, Mason, Shriner, Elk, Woodman, was appointed Senator from Michigan last week to succeed Woodbridge N. Ferris, 75-year-old Democrat who died of pneumonia last fortnight. Mr. Vandenberg made the fifth journalist in the Upper House. Fellow Republican publishers to whom he can look from behind his horn-rimmed glasses for encouragement in his maiden speech are Cutting of New Mexico, Capper of Kansas, La Follette of Wisconsin. Senator-publisher Carter Glass of Virginia sits across the aisle among the Democrats...
Though he was a friend and admirer of Woodrow Wilson, Editor-Senator Vandenberg's Republicanism is thoroughgoing. The Herald which he has edited for 22 years is owned by onetime (1907-19) Senator William Alden Smith, oldtime G. O. P. stalwart. As an author, Mr. Vandenberg is best known for his Alexander Hamilton: The Greatest American...
...remote and ultima Thulish is Mongolia, the land which partially bounds China on the north, that last week the following delayed courier despatch loomed in the North China Herald as hot news...