Word: column
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...University baseball team finally broke into the winning column again yesterday afternoon, defeating a nine composed of former Crimson stars, after a stiff argument, by the score of 6 to 4 on Soldiers Field...
Gene Howe had criticized Lindbergh for not landing on a field crowded with eager spectators. Despite threatening and sneering telegrams the obscure editor wrote another ironic column: "I'll grant that he has the courage, but I also insist that he is more or less simpleminded, or he would not have permitted his head to grow to such large proportions. It may be treason for me to say so, but the truth is that Lindbergh has had more extraordinary luck than anyone in modern history...
...instance, in your May 14 issue, 3rd column, page 18, what possible excuse have you for referring to the late Queen Victoria of England as "dumpy"; the word lacks respect when it refers to that beloved ruler of a Great Nation who during her life was described as "the most Queenly woman and the most womanly Queen of her time...
...Figures in this column are, of course, only "estimated...
...editors believed, and rightly, as events proved--that the suggestion of censorship or suppression would increase their sales. Accordingly the paper was printed with one corner perfectly blank and with a similar blank space taking up about one-third of the editorial column. These blanks were then painstakingly cut out by members of the staff and it was whispered that I had suppressed an offensive story and editorial. The paper "sold like wildfire" and its appearance was followed by visits to the printer in search of the missing portions, offers of high prices for "unexpurgated" copies--as much...