Word: heralds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Musical Chairs. The result pleased almost nobody. The Times described the Cabinet shuffle as a game of puss-in-the-corner. The Spectator labeled it "The Cabinet Stirabout." Coming closer to the right figure, the Daily Herald compared it to the Mad Hatter's tea party: "The leading figures move solemnly from one chair to another and the public, like Alice, looks on bewildered." In effect, Mr. Chamberlain had invited his Cabinet to get up and march around the room while he stood one chair in the corner. When they sat down again, six had new chairs, there were...
...longer herald a renaissance; it is too late now. Once, when I had the power to do much and the desire to do more, mediocrity everywhere was too strong. I was the giant with the feet of clay-the lot of many youths. But now, my small, small friend, look about you: there has appeared, even within your field of vision, a figure here and a figure there, a shining crest, lavish with its bounty, geniuses beneath the open sky-you and I should bid them welcome. I walk in the evening of life and, trembling, recognize myself in them...
Long inured to the newsroom cry: "Shooting at Jackson!", Reporter John F. ("Sunny") Day of the Lexington, Ky. Herald-Leader scented a deeper story in Bloody Breathitt. Armed only with a camera, he spent two days among Breathitt's "483 square miles of scraggy mountains and lean, infertile hollows." Last week the Herald-Leader printed John Day's noteworthy report, suggesting some reasons why life is cheap and pride is dear in Breathitt County...
...determination and get-up-to-go to him. We're all Yankees up here. Why, everybody here except an Indian has always been a Yankee." Said ex-Governor Wilbur Cross: A Yankee is "a reasonably honest, good citizen, who obeys the laws-pretty well." Added the New York Herald Tribune: "A Connecticuter of the old line in a New York penthouse may have less of the 'old traditional Yankee perspective' than an immigrant who is still willing to dig stones out of the hillside pasture...
Willmott Harsant Lewis, born in Cardiff, Wales, went to China in 1899, covered the Boxer Rebellion. He has never returned to Britain except on brief visits. For George Gordon Bennett's old New York Herald, Bill Lewis covered the Russo-Japanese War. He worked for Joseph Pulitzer, William Randolph Hearst, spent seven years as editor of the Manila Times...