Word: redounds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...business and love), Wayne goes as a passenger on an attempted nonstop airplane flight to Moscow sponsored by his paper (as Payne went in Hearst's Old Glory}. Excerpt: "He wanted to win a signal victory, not through some unsavory sensation, but through an exploit that would redound to his honor and that of the Lantern. [He said:] . . . 'Peters, I have nothing to live for. We are both wrong. Keeping up newspaper circulation with stunts is like reviving a dying man with oxygen tanks. I couldn't keep it up and I wouldn...
...suffered. With alumni colleges coming into being, however, a new interest in the college, a more intelligent and appreciative interest, will grow up among the alumni. It will be an interest which will weld the alumni body more closely together than any football game, an interest which will redound to the credit of the college along the lines for which, after all, colleges have their being...
...tomb] and then have me pelted out of your window with roadside pebbles [the book Le Memorial de Foch, published by Journalist Raymond Recouly and quoting his words in a long attack on Clémenceau for having "lost the peace"] ?I tell you frankly [this] does not redound to your glory...