Word: retelle
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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It was a legend which Truman loves to retell. The sixth U.S. President, John Quincy Adams, he said, delighted in early-morning plunges off the backyard riverbank. One morning an enterprising newspaper woman, Anne Royall, trapped President Adams in swimming, sat on his clothes and demanded an interview. In the...
Not So Spot News. Black-haired "Barney" Kilgore arrived fresh from college, like most Journal men, and has never worked for any other paper. As an editor, he put a new kind of news into the Journal: the chatty, informative Page One "leaders" that look like spot news, but aren...
Salute to Valor. To millions of Mexicans the President's gesture was an amazing salute to Mexican pride and Mexican valor.† Newspapers ran black with the news. Men & women shouted it on the streets, stopped U.S. citizens to retell the story. A taxi driver named Juan Gomez said...
No one has guessed what social force (the lash or superstition) called forth so mighty an effort, or what happened to the people who built Fortress Nanmatol. Director Peter H. Buck of Honolulu's Bishop Museum (whose mother was a New Zealand Maori) hopes the U.S. will clear up...
Tutt v. Train. By complaining that Train in his stories sometimes twisted the facts for literary purposes, Autobiographer Tutt is able to retell many of his most famous exploits in rescuing justice from the technicalities of the law. He also tells plenty of new stories about murder trials, contested wills...