Word: column
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Information on the investments of one such market follower was last week disclosed through the daily column in the New York Telegram by Colyumist Heywood Broun. The investor is, of course, Mr. Broun himself. Managing a column which is about equally divided between the controversial and the autobiographical, Mr. Broun, in one of his revelatory moments, mentioned the nature and extent of his corporate holdings. Purposely naive (as when he remarked that should his General Realty stock prove him to be his own landlord he would certainly do something about a defective window) Mr. Broun's commitments indicated...
...practice of vagabonding in classes as carried on at Harvard has now been adopted by Princeton and a column in The Daily Princetonian entitled "The Third Elective" has been instituted to carry announcements of the most noteworthy lectures of the day. "The Student Vagabond" in The Harvard Crimson has accomplished that same purpose for some time and has been considered of valuable aid in announcing topics of the day to students who might be interested in visiting certain classes...
From grave, Cyclopean Lord Nelson, perched on his column in Trafalgar Square, to Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens, London is full of statuary. Possibly no statues in the whole murky city are better known or more consistently photographed than the two living statues that guard Britain's War Office-the living mounted sentries of the Horse Guards. Splendid, remote and eternal, they stand in their little sentry boxes: two coal-black horses, currycombed to satin smoothness; two six-foot troopers in jackboots, silver breastplates, plumed helmets. Not even when irreverent trippers tempt the chargers with raw carrots, or drop...
...following is clipped from a four column critique of the Harvard education appearing in Sunday's Boston Globe. It contains what might be called the kernel of the article...
...announcement of changes in the annual New York Times Current Events Contest which is in another column in this morning's CRIMSON shows that there is a sincere effort on the part of those in charge of it to make it a really significant affair. Although the changes are of minor importance and do not basically alter the nature of the competition, they do clearly indicate that the New York Times is taking more than a purely commercial interest in the enterprise...