Word: column
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...possible that you could expect any dog fancier to subscribe for or advertise in a magazine that could countenance or publish such an ignorant, derisive, misleading article as appeared in your SPORT column, Feb. 27 issue, under the caption of "Putting...
Shrewd Hearst Editor Arthur Brisbane hastened to slap the epidemic into his column while it was still hot news, unconfirmed, undenied...
...column wound up a narrow valley and topped the rise it came plump upon an encampment of Sandinistas who had bivouacked at an abandoned ranch house, after taking the elementary precaution of planting a machine gun to command the valley. Despatches differed as to whether it was the Marines or the Sandinistas who were most surprised. The outcome, disgraceful to the U. S. Marine scouting service, was a prolonged pitched engagement. Only the fact that another Marine patrol, under Capt. William McNulty was in the vicinity, and rushed up at the sound of firing, prevented an ugly outcome. Eventually...
...record of the Freshmen to date shows a tie for second place in the local class C league and only two matches in the lost column. The Eli team, on the other hand, is an unknown quantity. Freshman squash is a newly organized sport at New Haven, this year's team being the first to play outside matches...
...government, realizing how much more importance is usually attached to injured dignity than to actual harm, is wise enough to sooth the cries from the Southward. But in the meantime Americans will doubtless continue to call themselves Americans, and Mr. Mencken's favorite column-heading need not for a while yield to a less euphonious name...