Word: heralds
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Practically everybody I know is a 'liberal.' At least that's what they call themselves," a reader in Bethel, Conn, wrote last week to the New York Herald Tribune. "What is a liberal? A man who wants . . . higher taxes and more schools or lower taxes and more business, more government or less government? . . . I'm confused." The Trib, which cherishes its liberalism as much as its Republicanism, passed the question to its readers. Over a hundred definitions poured in, and a few shed a little light on one of the most overworked words in the modern...
...vicar wrote to the Daily Herald: "I hardly expected to find half a hundred gaily attired men & women enjoying a display of such revolting cruelty." His letter said that the huntsmen had wantonly dug the fox out of its earth and tossed it "into the midst of a score of yelping hounds, who tugged at it to the accompaniment of its agonized screams." It gave, he added, "a frightful impression of bloodlust...
...bands to smother sour notes for him. Playing without written arrangements, bending the melody around on his own, then blending in with the others when the clarinet or trombone soars off on the lead, Louis has wrung raves even from longer-haired critics. The New York Herald Tribune's Virgil Thomson once said that Louis' style of improvisation made him "a master of musical art comparable only to the great castrati of the 18th Century...
...Herod; and Baritone Joel Berglund, as Jokanaan (John the Baptist), had the starkness of a primitive carving as he hurled his curses on Salome. When the curtain was down, instead of morosely reaching for their coats, the audience stood up and applauded in a 15-minute ovation. Said the Herald Tribune's Virgil Thomson next morning: "One of the great musico-dramatic performances of our century...
Married. Pauline Betz, 29, green-eyed, red-haired U.S. tennis queen (four-time winner of the U.S. Women's Singles: 1942-43-44-46), who turned professional nearly two years ago; and Robert Addie, 38, sports columnist for the Washington Times-Herald; in Los Angeles...