Herbert Morrison (announcer)
Herbert "Herb" Morrison ((1905-05-14)May 14, 1905 – January 10, 1989(1989-01-10)) was an American radio reporter best known for his dramatic report of the Hindenburg disaster, a catastrophic fire that destroyed the LZ 129 Hindenburg zeppelin on May 6, 1937, killing 36 people.
Read more about Herbert Morrison (announcer): Hindenburg Disaster, Aftermath, "Oh, The Humanity"
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“Chaucer’s remarkably trustful and affectionate character appears in his familiar, yet innocent and reverent, manner of speaking of his God. He comes into his thought without any false reverence, and with no more parade than the zephyr to his ear.... There is less love and simple, practical trust in Shakespeare and Milton. How rarely in our English tongue do we find expressed any affection for God! Herbert almost alone expresses it, “Ah, my dear God!””
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.”
—Toni Morrison (b. 1931)