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Hearst   /hərst/   Listen
Hearst

noun
1.
United States newspaper publisher whose introduction of large headlines and sensational reporting changed American journalism (1863-1951).  Synonym: William Randolph Hearst.






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"Hearst" Quotes from Famous Books



... nigh In midnight's gloomy hour?... What wilt thou? Speak! Thou crowdst me, pressest— Ha! now far too closely! Thou hearst me breathing, Thou o'erhearst my heart, Thou ever jealous one! —Of what, pray, ever jealous? Off! Off! For why the ladder? Wouldst thou GET IN? To heart in-clamber? To mine own secretest Conceptions ...
— Thus Spake Zarathustra - A Book for All and None • Friedrich Nietzsche

... that. And each department is of equal dignity; although at one period there was a certain amount of public complaint that Congress was usurping more power than belongs to it, and recently that power was being usurped by the president, there has hardly been (except from Mr. Gompers and Mr. Hearst) any complaint that power is usurped by the judicial branch, however unpopular its decisions. But in England there is no pretence of maintaining the three branches uniform either in importance or in power. Starting with the Great Council, which had ...
— Popular Law-making • Frederic Jesup Stimson

... were made by Mr. Frederic Remington, from personal observation while in Cuba, and from photographs, and descriptions furnished by eye-witnesses, and are here reproduced through the courtesy of Mr. W. R. Hearst. ...
— Cuba in War Time • Richard Harding Davis

... material and enlisted the aid of a young journalist, Ida Husted Harper, whom she had met in 1878 while lecturing in Terre Haute, Indiana, and who was in California that winter. When the San Francisco Examiner, William Randolph Hearst's powerful Democratic paper, offered Susan a column on the editorial page if she would write it and sign it, she dictated her thoughts to Mrs. Harper, who smoothed them out for the column, helping her as Mrs. Stanton had in the past, for writing was still a great hardship. Grateful to Mrs. Harper, ...
— Susan B. Anthony - Rebel, Crusader, Humanitarian • Alma Lutz

... William Randolph Hearst in powerful editorials called upon the Senators to act. Mr. R. J. Caldwell of New York, life-long suffragist, financier and man of affairs, faithfully and persistently stood by the amendment and by the militants. A more generous contributor and more ...
— Jailed for Freedom • Doris Stevens

... the prayer thou hearst me making Have, at the awful overtaking, Heard; have heard and granted Grace that day ...
— Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins - Now First Published • Gerard Manley Hopkins

... a hundred things!—the first day I found you both in the little house on Hearst Avenue—the dinners we used to have . . . the times I used to come on Sunday morning to find you both, and the youngsters—the day just before I graduated when mother and I had lunch at your house . . . and, finally, that day I left you, and you said, both of you, 'Don't ...
— An American Idyll - The Life of Carleton H. Parker • Cornelia Stratton Parker



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