Word: heralds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Democratic National Convention of 1924 in his pocket. The story of that event really began 42 years and 10 days earlier, when the cyclonic Swope bounded into the world at St. Louis. He traveled the reportorial route via the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Chicago Tribune, The New York Herald to the "city desk" of The New York World. The War came and he went to Germany for two years as correspondent for the World. He wrote a book, Inside the German Empire. When he came back, the city desk was no longer a large enough stage for his strenuous action...
Gifford Pinchot, Governor of Pennsylvania and ardent Dry: "The New York Herald commenced publication of a series of letters descriptive of life in Washington during the Roosevelt Administration and written by the late Major Archie Butt, military aid to the President. Said one letter: 'It was a pleasant afternoon. He [President Roosevelt] was in his best humor, and during the afternoon Longworth and his wife, Mr. Pinchot, the forester, and some others came in. The President had already ordered four mint juleps, but before they were served they had got up to eight. As each guest would arrive...
More entertaining than the fight were the comments of W. O. McGeehan, sporting editor of The New York Herald, on events of the preceding eve- ning. According to McGeehan, Siki strolled into the Baltimore Hotel, Memphis, where Norfolk was sitting with a black girl. Siki advanced to pay his respects. Unhappily, Norfolk, ignorant of French, assumed insult. He stared at Siki with all the enthusiasm of the cold and clammy blackness of a coal mine. Siki started fighting on the spot. McGeehan deplored Siki's amateur attitude in this unbusinesslike proceeding. Said he: "If Siki goes around the country...
...some very 'liberal' legislation. The antimonopoly bill certainly represented the antithesis of standpattism; so also, the anti-discrimination bill; and so particularly the anti-injunction bill, which he effectively championed on the floor of the House. We may properly repeat here a line of comment from the Northampton Daily Herald of April 24, 1908, which said: 'Mr. Coolidge is entitled to the thanks of the wage laborers of his district for his manly defense of their interests...
...playing of this substantial superficiality is chiefly in the hands of Lyn Harding as the Grand Duke. The New York Herald: 'The neatest and most fetching surprise finish of the season ... an evening of spoofing, leaving the impression that - here is George M. Cohan being done in an offhand British manner...