Word: news
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...note in the Yale News that a portrait is being painted of the first Eli graduate, Jacob Heminway, who received his degree in 1704. With no description of the gentleman in exis-life. Kirby's opinion that Heminway was a "bigoted, self-centered, stern old Puritan" is said to be confirmed by the fact that in later life "he cut off his tence, the artist, Donald Kirby, is "synthesizing" his features from available scraps of information regarding his only daughter without a penny because she had married an Episcopalian...
Days later as the same ambulances were rolling back into headquarters heavy with groaning men, news came out that made excitable Italians dance in the streets of Rome. There had been a victory, a great victory. Italian papers first hailed it as "one of the greatest victories in colonial history," later called it, "The battle of the Three Rivers," from the fact that three stony streams unite northwest of Dolo to form the Juba River...
...arriving in Manhattan, London and Paris heart-shocked by the altitude; nausea-shocked by the fleas, flies and filth; sleepless from malaria and dysentery; jittering and at such low ebb that their journalistic employers sent them to secluded rest homes. On the subject of altitude able United Press European News Manager Webb Miller vividly said: "You would lie down, thoroughly fatigued, your heart would palpitate and you would get scared, thinking you were going to die. Then would come fits of weeping, and then fits of passionate anger. It was a God-awful experience...
...some 120 correspondents and photographers who originally beseiged Addis Ababa for news only a scant dozen had not left by last week. Gone were Karl von Weigand, Hubert Renfro Knickerbocker and Evelyn Waugh. The Ethiopians had cheated the pants off the correspondents as individuals and collectively mulcted the world's news and newsreel services to an extent which makes Ethiopia journalism's worst investment of all time...
...Public Relations Counsel Josef Israels II said, "I like to place Will Barbour among some of the other empire builders who are buried in African soil, because never in all the history of journalism has the press so swiftly, so expertly and so completely built an empire of news and enlightenment in a wilderness hitherto unpenetrated." This was one way of alluding to the fact that it remains impossible to obtain for love or money anything remotely approaching an accurate day by day account of the war on Ethiopia's fronts...