Word: lippmann
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...heros of the hour and there are men, and women too, who have had their famous moments. Fickle and feverish attention is the vice of a child. There is much material for the sociologist in the childishness of the American public. The tabloids have exploited it professionally. Walter Lippmann and Professor Abbott have touched upon it philosophically. Realistic novelists have for several decades past been turning it to hand in one form or another. Still the impression persists that only the surface phenomena have been observed, and that in a chosen analysis of the mind of the public, individually...
Reading the newspapers next day, Mr. Kellogg must have realized that his stern and vigorous efforts had caused trouble. Walter Lippmann, able chief editorial writer of the New York World, who had recently talked with President Coolidge, said: "What can be the mentality of a Secretary of State who will sponsor such balderdash as this memorandum? Here we are in the midst of the most delicate international crisis that has arisen since the War, and we find the Secretary of State engaged in slanderous insinuation against a friendly government. Could anything be meaner? . . . This is a crime against the peace...
Even politics, however, has its White Hope. In Mayor Rogers, the American public has the sole survivor of a great tradition. There are others on the borderland. T. R. B. in the New Republic, Walter Lippmann in the New York World, an occasional editorial in the Nation, these form a gallant and a pitiful band. And even these are not always unencumbered with such impedimenta as missions, ideals, or factional propaganda, all of which are spurious to the true satirist...
...younger Joseph having attended, 1904-06. The executive editor of the World, red-headed Herbert B. Swope, would have been Harvard '03 but for an accident. The lumbering World confessionist-colyumist, Heywood Broun, had sat to Harvard professors from 1906 to 1910. And the World editorial writer, Walter Lippmann, fierce purist, who had doubtless dictated the World's rebuke, had in his precocious youth completed the four-year Harvard course in three years, aged 20 ('09), and stayed a year to study philosophy...
...Walter Lippmann, editorial writer of the N. Y. World LL.D...