Word: broun
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...youths lately turned out by that small incubator of great men, Amherst College, have entered this fertile vale of psychology and in it, after proper experiment, planted a book.* Before publishing they went calling. They called on President William Allan Neilson of Smith College and on Colyumnist Heywood Broun of the New York World; on Advertiser Bruce Barton and President Emeritus Arthur Twining Hadley of Yale, Sport-Writer W. O. McGeehan and Actress Genevieve Tobin, Dr. Frank Crane and Critic Baird Leonard of Life. At these, in the pairs named, and at other notables, they directed a rushing stream...
...Copey" to acquaint his listeners with the writing of some Harvard man-the late Poet Allan Seeger, who was doubtless one of the hundreds of men-with whom "Copey" kept up a lively correspondence as his contribution to the War; or Funnyman Robert Benchley, of Life; or Heywood Broun, idly-ambling colyumist of the New York World...
...World, of advertising itself with full pages in other newspapers. It put its best foot far forward, extolling what is unquestionably "the best written feature page in American journalism," the World's famed "opp.ed." (opposite editorial) page, where Franklin Pierce Adams like a bandar-log and Heywood Broun like St. Simeon Stylites ruminate at the foot and the head, respectively, of their columns; where are also plump Drama Critic Alexander Woollcott, Book Critic Harry Hansen, Music Critic Samuel Chotzinoff...
...World were Harvard men; Ralph, the elder, having been graduated an A. B. in 1900; younger Joseph having attended, 1904-06. The executive editor of the World, red-headed Herbert B. Swope, would have been Harvard '03 but for an accident. The lumbering World confessionist-colyumist, Heywood Broun, had sat to Harvard professors from 1906 to 1910. And the World editorial writer, Walter Lippmann, fierce purist, who had doubtless dictated the World's rebuke, had in his precocious youth completed the four-year Harvard course in three years, aged 20 ('09), and stayed a year to study...
FRANK SULLIVAN is a bright young man who first came to the notice of readers of the New York World by filling in for Heywood Broun while the latter was vacationing. Broun's "It Seems to Me" column became for the nonce "It Seems to Me Too", and even the most devout Brounonians grudgingly admitted that this fellow Sullivan wasn't so bad. But Broun returned in due course and his bright young substitute retired to a less conspicuous page of the World, where he continued to offer his humorous wares to those who cared to seek...