Word: wickham
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week, a book called Through Thirty Years appeared in England, written by Henry Wickham Steed, one-time editor of The Times. Foreign correspondents of U. S. journals speedily buried their noses in its pages, seeking some illuminative reminiscence that would justify a cable home. Speedily the correspondents found a jewel...
Headlined The New York World: "Fee! Fi! Fo! Fum! List to the Numbing Tale of the Tiger and the Welshman as Spun by Wickham Steed. ... No One Else Ever Heard of It." While they awaited the book, U. S. newspaper readers reflected that, of all journalists at the Peace Conference, whilom Editor Steed was probably as near the inner machinery as any; that of all temperaments assembled at Versailles, those of Lloyd George and "Tiger" Clemenceau were perhaps the fieriest; that if such a quarrel had come to pass, it must certainly have been hushed up; that of all reputations...
...other hand, few men as brilliant and vivacious as Wickham Steed are not also imaginative...
Among those present: Charles P. Scott, director of the Manchester Guardian; Henry Wickham Steed, former editor of the London Times; Sir Arthur Willert, former Washington correspondent of the London Times; Sir Philip Gibbs; T. P. O'Connor; John L. Balderston, of The New York World; L. R. Holmes, The New York Times; Joseph Grigg, The New York Herald, Arthur S. Draper, New York Tribune; Hal O'Flaherty, Chicago Daily Tribune; John Steele, Chicago Daily News; W. H. Milgate, Detroit News; Robert M. Collins, The Associated Press; Lloyd Allen, United Press; Frazier Hunt, International News Service; Sidney Thatcher, Philadelphia...
Henceforth the British Review of Reviews will be owned and edited by Wickham Steed. Steed was formerly Lord Northcliffe's man; he ap- peared in the U. S. with Northcliffe when the Fleet Street colossus made his tour of the world in 1921. For Northcliffe he edited the London Times. The monthly he now controls was founded in 1890 by W. T. Stead...