Word: column
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...jovial column conductor who had once printed some of Marry's verse, swept him into a strange circle of struggling young writers, successful newspaper patterers, sophisticated critics. One of these, an ash-blonde beauty, lured Marry to her studio, and quickly taught him that his slangy little slum girl was wanting in veneer. But his slangy little Josephine bought herself books on rhetoric and elocution, and disappeared temporarily from Marry's scheme of things...
...interested reader of your letters from the people and have learned many things from this column-my father being a subscriber...
...Governor Smith was nominated by those sections of the country which rarely if ever are found in the Democratic column...
Such items as these would be found in a daily newspaper column about shops and department stores. Such items together with shrewd bits of advice for merchants and customers would interest the thousands who work for stores and the daily millions who visit them. But such a column, now appearing daily in the New York Telegram (Scripps-Howard), signed by a young woman named Alice Hughes,* is unique in modern metropolitan journalism. Ethically inconsistent, U. S. dailies consume tons of paper in chatting about automobiles, amusements, radio, real estate, banks, all of which advertise heavily; but they have hitherto refused...
...Hughes-Telegram column is still experimental. It is extremely diffident in its advice to shoppers, but then no daily automobile editor has ever dared to say anything but equally nice things about each and every automobile that was ever offered for sale. Miss Hughes' advice to storekeepers is much more specific. To date, however, her best work has been to acquaint the buying millions with quaint details. Some of her paragraphs...