Word: heralding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...heroine nervously tugs at her glove under cross-examination, the country, is told in a special edition. If the hero waves on the witness stand, pink-sheeted extras herald the indiscretion. With the skill of true playwrights, the reporters interlard the main action with willy bits of byplay between the lawyers...
...structure is handsome. It has a Harvard air, a colonial look; it has both dignity and beauty; it is of New England. The first reaction toward the proposed memorial is favorable and we fancy that it will have the approval of the great majority of Harvard men. The Boston Herald...
...good man to write an Uprooted laid right in the U. S.-the uprooting of small-town folk and their transplanting, with various degrees of success, in big cities. He was born at Urbana, Ohio, 57 years ago, becoming a political correspondent on the old Chicago Record-Herald, and later an assistant to Illinois' Secretary of State at Springfield, what time (1893-97) he tutored in law. Then he went to Ohio, passed its bar requirements and began practicing in Toledo. That town welcomed his vigor and independence, soon (1905) electing him mayor over four other candidates...
Last week the news was spread: Cornelius Vanderbilt IV, aged 28, was in financial difficulties. His tabloid newspapers, the Los Angeles Illustrated Daily News (maximum circulation 214,000), San Francisco Illustrated Daily Herald (maximum circulation 135,000), the Miami Tab (only 18 months old) needed more money. He had sunk $100,000 of his own money. He had 5,000 fellow stockholders. He had borrowed $1,080,000 from his father. But he still needed $300,000 to put his papers on a paying basis?and his father would lend him no more. He tried to pledge his patrimony?...
...Cornelius IV was not press-shy. He got himself a job on the New York Herald Tribune as reporter. From there he went to the New York Times, and from there to Washington to free lance, until Publisher Hearst, whose gum-chewing public dotes on names like Vanderbilt, gobbled him up to write signed articles. There is evidence that the youth received lasting inspiration at the Hearstian knee, for his journalistic activities ever since have been in the gum-chewing field...