Word: heralds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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From the wide open spaces of Minnesota, where grow corn and wheat and financial reforms, comes a new proposal for peace upon earth with the dollar sign as the herald angel. The spokesman is Senator Shipstead, the Farmer-Labor member of the Foreign Relations Committee. His proposition is to establish control by the Federal Government of all American banking and investment credit in the international field as a means of promoting world peace...
...Boston Herald referred to President Coolidge in a recent editorial as "the wise old President". Really, I prefer the simple epithet of H. L. Mencken, "Doctor Coolidge". Loyal Opposition...
...wires of that thundergod of ghosts, Stravinsky. So far the composer has allowed no one else to play the work in public. Listeners were astounded; critics were baffled. Said Critic Olin Downes (The New York Times) : "An amazing and electrifying development." Said Critic Lawrence Gilman (The New York Herald-Tribune) : "The communings of a slightly inebriated Bach...
...relatives, greeted the piece with what seemed to us highly disproportionate cordiality." Critic Taylor's confreres were less rigorous in their estimate of the composition of Composer Taylor. They, in their writings next day, used brave words: "Rich" (The New York Times) ; "Vivid" (The New York Herald-Tribune) ; "Delicate" (The New York American) ; "Tender" (The New York Telegram-Evening Mail) ; "Attractive" (The New York Evening World...
...resemblance to the man whose picture appeared on the front page of their newspaper, whose name appeared on the front page of other sheets, thus: GIFFORD, 40, HEADS BIGGEST UTILITY COMPANY (New York Times) ; W. S. GIFFORD ELECTED HEAD OF A. T. & T. Co. (New York Herald-Tribune). If he knew this, it seemed to cause him neither amusement nor annoyance. He meditated, perhaps, on the fact that he had at his direct command more such girls than any other man alive. He was Mr. Gifford, new president of the American Telephone & Telegraph...