Word: landmarks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...York Evening Post, ancient landmark of the U. S. publishing panorama, approached the end of its first year under the mastery of Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis. It had been a year such as the Post never knew before?a year of the grand manner...
...serves admirably to point the article in the Saturday Evening Post which it criticises. If the writer really believes that familiarity with so significant an event as the Treaty of Utrecht indicates "a pedantic hankering after specific facts" and that the date of so significant a landmark in the history of English literature as the appearance of Tottel's Miscellany is to be considered deadwood. I feel sure he is in a fair way of becoming the type of college graduate (not limited to Harvard) to which I took objection. I doubt if either a trend of thought...
...although, until better evidence is produced, the principal honor belongs to King Edward. None the less the role played by M. Cambon was of vital importance and just how much influence he exerted upon King Edward, with whom he was on intimate terms, is not definitely known. The other landmark in his ambassadorial career was in 1914, when he frustrated every attempt on the part of Germany to separate Britain from her allies-France and Russia. When the news came that the Duchy of Luxembourg had been invaded, Paul Cambon called upon the then Foreign Minister, Sir Edward Grey, with...
...bought the New York Evening Post. In taking control of the Post he took possession of an heirloom. On the list of its editors and owners were Alex ander Hamilton, William Cullen Bryant, John Bigelow, Carl Schurz, E. L. Godkin-great men who had made the Post a landmark of journalism. But these men had passed and the Post was no longer their Post. It was a paper run by a group of wealthy men for the pur pose of satisfying their view of what a newspaper should be-an educated man's paper, liberal, refined, in good taste...
...from the sparser population centers whose annual trip to New York was duly solemnized by an evening at the Hippodrome. Inspection of their reasons for and reactions from so doing might be deleterious to our National Pride. The fact remains that the Hippodrome came to be a definite landmark in the amusement education of every 100% American...