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She also reflected with misery that New York would talk the matter over excitedly and that finally the newspapers would get hold of the gossip. She could even imagine interviewers calling at the house in Fifth Avenue and endeavouring to obtain particulars of the situation.
Gray was annoyed at being discovered; he was, in fact, loath to acknowledge his identity. Having just returned from an important conference with some of the leading financiers of the city, his mind was burdened with affairs of weight, and then, too, the mayor was expecting him luncheon probably hence he was in no mood to be interviewed. Usually Mr. Gray's secretary saw interviewers.
McCormick had that manner of some mothers of seeming to be constantly disapproving, while not in the least concealing her unqualified admiration. "I'm not interviewing them, Mother. Skillful interviewers never interview. They just get people to talk." "But what is it you're going to write," asked the doctor, "a eulogy or denunciation?" "Both; something characteristic."
In addition to the strain of the battle, there had been the heavy work of seeing the interviewers, signing autograph-books, sitting to photographers, writing testimonials for patent medicines, and the thousand and one other tasks, burdensome but unavoidable, of the man who is in the public eye. Also he had caught a bad cold during the battle.
This conception, which is still the structural conception of all successful flying machines, needed, however, a vast amount of toil upon its details before it could actually be realised, and such toil Filmer as he was accustomed to tell the numerous interviewers who crowded upon him in the heyday of his fame "ungrudgingly and unsparingly gave."
Dick, dreadfully alarmed, fled with a howl; but this did not prevent a column and a half of matter, headed "The Infant's Tale of Woe," from appearing that very day in a journal noted for the accuracy and unsensational character of its communications. Nor was the army of interviewers the only terror that they had to face.
"You'll have to beware of interviewers," said Tom. "You may be sure the newspaper men have got wind of you by this time." "I don't know. Barracombe wouldn't say anything; I don't think Johnson in Constantinople would, and " "My dear fellow, don't make any mistake," said Captain Warren.
Expert interviewers prepare themselves both for their topic and their man before they go into a confab a practice which should be followed to some extent by every writer who sets out to interview an editor about a manuscript. What you have to offer should be prepared to suit the needs of the editor to whom the contribution is addressed.
Expenditure on the navy is unpopular in America, but by its parade of pacifism the Government has been enabled to extract the necessary money out of the pockets of reluctant taxpayers. When the deputation reached the black labour allegation Mr. Hughes jumped from his chair and turned on his interviewers with, 'Black labour be damned. Go to blithering blazes.
"What's the purpose of your conference? Who will attend?" "I I well, let us say I had hoped to make you and Eyer available to all interviewers on the eve of your flight into the stratosphere." Jeter hesitated, realizing that the publisher did not wish to tell everything over the telephone. "We'll be right along, sir," he said. It took an hour for them to reach the publisher's office.
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