Word: toward
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Ethics take their in place in journalism only when the press realizes that it is affected by a sense of public interest," continued Mr. Villard. "A feeling of responsibility toward readers, of purveying to them accurate and unblassed news on all questions is the basis of newspaper ethics...
...This highly capitalized system admits no sense of responsibility toward the public. News and editorials are colored with a view toward the satisfaction of money-making ends. There are, however, several notable experiments tending aainst this principle. The Jewish Daily Forward, published in several large American cities, is the most noteworthy of these. The successful paper devotes its gains to altruistic aims, and has practically demonstrated how a paper can be run with no financial profit. Until general recognition is made of this fact, journalistic ethics, in the true sense of the term, will be honored rather in the breach...
...journalistic pipes with a mighty welter of superlative swell toward the climax of the overture. Out in the shadow house a moneyed populace whispers expectantly, and straining, catches through a rift in the curtain delicious glimpses of promised wonders. And not a tear, even hypocritical, falls for the old fellow, battered but unbowed, led away to an obscure almshouse. It is the model Y of fragrant memories, a picaresque place that in the noisy exuberance of gallant youth growing nation. But it is said that Harvard and America are decadent now. One rides in Chryslers...
...from time to time--particularly by literateurs with a philosophic turn of mind about the drama of history. And indeed, their contention that there is a divinity which shapes the end of history even as it does that of man, In other words that history moves like a drama toward an ultimate conclusion, seems at least to have a basis. Certainly it is not rare to find elements of the dramatic in the events of the past, particularly in studying those which have had, a long and unbroken succession...
...hurtful to the other great powers, and there is great hurrying and scurrying in the French and British and Italian offices to answer is. For whatever recriminations pass between diplomats, the feeling of the people of the world seems to be for peace, with disarmament as the first step toward world security. Mean-while the British and Italian foreign offices tell their people through the press that the Russians always spoil every conference anyway, just as soon as it gets nicely going, and so the people must not expect too much of the conference at Geneva. France has also taken...