Word: heralds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Boston newspapers had counted the couple's luggage, duly reported 31 pieces. For that, the Duchess gave interviewers a lecture, called it all "most extraordinary," pointed out that the 31 pieces were not just for herself and husband but also a maid, a valet and a secretary. Wrote Herald Columnist Bill Cunningham: "Possibly I'm stupid but it seems to me that this makes it all incredibly worse-five people and all this culch loading up a common carrier in times such as these just to call upon an ailing aunt...
...Powerful interests" was all the hint the America-Firstish press needed. The Washington Times-Herald's British-baiting Frank C. Waldrop (whose capital dope is reverently quoted by the Chicago Tribune and the New York Daily News) picked up what appeared to be the ball and ran panting across several vacant lots. Lumping Franklin Roosevelt and Adolf Hitler together for firing good generals, Waldrop wrote: ". . . The fundamental question is whether our Army is to be used first for United States purposes or for the purposes of British Empire strategy General Marshall right today is out as Chief of Staff...
...Australia was famed writer and preacher Daniel A. Poling. Pastor of Philadelphia's Baptist Temple, president of the World's Christian Endeavor Union, a worldwide youth organization, Poling will visit U.S. chaplains and troops, write articles for the Christian Science Monitor and the widely read monthly Christian Herald, of which he is editor in chief...
Oust to Oust. In the Yakima (Wash.) Herald appeared a want ad: "SUCKERS ONLY. We drink, smoke, gamble and use profane language. We have two children, a boy and a girl who are professional housewreckers, breaking anything handy. We have been ousted from every house we have rented, but still need a place to call home. Does anybody have courage enough to rent us a furnished two-bedroom house...
News of rapid progress sent Moscow into an orgy of optimism. Cannon boomed without cease, to herald victories. The Russians poured into the streets, shouted in delight, embraced strangers. And, for the first time, Stalin uttered the magic words: "In the direction of Kiev...