Word: tellings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Being an American citizen born of American parents and having lived here for the past eight years, I must protest and tell you that I was ashamed of your description of the Royal Visit to Canada...
When the King & Queen came to Montreal, they traveled 24 miles of the city's streets, and all along the route they were cheered and applauded by one and all, including French Canadians. As for myself, I can tell you that I was so much moved by the mere sight of them that I had goose flesh all over...
...well-informed TIME tell if all the watertight doors in our Navy are manually operated? Has the new $90,000,000 battleship Washington got to depend on a few heroes if she is hit below the water line...
When he had a story to tell, he gave it to newspapermen succinctly, clearly, with a photographic eye for detail and colorful incident. More than that, he was an authentic, native character. When he had done something worth while he smiled for photographers. Once, when there was no particular reason for taking his picture, he was asked to smile. As Calvin Coolidge might have, he asked: "At what...
...this the U. S. press was largely responsible. Its original sin was omission-failure to tell what kind of man he was, to treat him with the customary cynicism with which it keeps public characters in perspective. Instead the press succumbed to mob psychology, augmenting it beyond belief. In Lindbergh's mind, however, the press became something far worse: a personification of malice, which deliberately urged on the crazy mob and printed lying stories about...