Word: heralds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dispatch on the front page of the New York Herald Tribune one day last week. Had it been datelined London or Paris, most propaganda-wise readers would have passed it by with an indulgent smile. But it was datelined Berlin, signed by 27-year-old Seymour Beach Conger, newly appointed chief of the Herald Tribune's Berlin bureau. It .had slipped easily through German censorship, which concentrates on suppressing "undesirable" writers, not undesirable words...
...Sampson of the Herald: "Harvard, Yale boasts a strong defensive line; but with the exception of aerial work, her offense doesn't amount to much. The Crimson backfield is outstanding and Harlow has a better all-round attack...
...still turns out good times, good news, good people. . . . And so, Life, Liberty and most particularly the Pursuit of Happiness, of these we sing!" In the first few weeks: Ray Middleton sang Maxwell Anderson's How Can You Tell An American; the editor of the Randolph (Vt.) weekly Herald and News reported the first Vermont freeze, announced that the local cider mill was open for business; Raymond Massey recited from Abe Lincoln in Illinois; Bob Benchley skitted through a shopping trip; Joe Cook imitated his three Hawaiians; Novelist Carl Carmer (The Hudson, Listen for a Lonesome Drum), countrywide correspondent...
...diplomats wondered whether these big trade announcements were not calculated: 1) to scare the Allies; 2) to reassure the German people that this time a blockade would not be effective; 3) to persuade doubting Germans that the Russians were, after all, reliable allies. Anent this thesis, the New York Herald Tribune's peripatetic Joseph Barnes, who specializes in listening to streetcar conversations and talking over lively topics with hundreds of Germans in all walks of life, reported...
Result: By last week some 200,000 of the 1,220,000 évacués had gone back to their city homes. There, with all schools closed, they ran wild in the streets. The Catholic Herald estimated there were 100,000 at large in London. While the press regarded the situation with "dismay," the Government stood adamant against opening schools in the danger areas, lest it encourage a wholesale return. It did, however, recall 200 teachers to London, sent them out to round up youngsters in the streets and hold impromptu classes on sandbags, in church crypts, in basements...