Word: column
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ordinary Miss Lonelyhearts is the Nancy Brown to whom these and hundreds of similar heartbleats were trustfully addressed, appearing first in her Experience Column in the Detroit News and last week in a book called Nancy's Family.* But not even her employers fully appreciated her power until she gave a party for her readers at Detroit's Art Institute five years ago. With Nancy Brown, Editor William S. Gilmore of the News set out to the party in his automobile, found streets for blocks around the Institute tightly packed with people. Summoning a traffic policeman, Mr. Gilmore...
That tale is now a Detroit legend. Police estimated the crowd at 100,000, and Nancy Brown began to rival Edgar A. Guest of the Detroit Free Press as the city's top literary figure. When she announced a religious Sunrise Service for her Column Family on Belle Isle last year, some 30,000 Detroiters crawled out of bed to attend. For a similar service this year attendance jumped, in Editor Gilmore's reckoning, by "two and a half acres" of people. When that alert local preacher named Edgar DeWitt Jones volunteered as Column Chaplain and invited Column...
...creating around Nancy Brown's real name as titillating a hocus-pocus as that which made the reputations of The Man in the Iron Mask and radio's Your Lover. At her parties and religious services she mingles anonymously with the crowd. Only a few of her Column Folks have guessed...
...News's editor, who had just been studying a column for housewives in the Kansas City Star, asked Mrs. Leslie to develop something similar, assigned her to his women's department. Eight months later, on April 19, 1919, her column appeared as an unsigned weekly feature. Her chatty advice on domestic problems caught on at once. Within three months the column, signed "Nancy Brown," was appearing every day. Widow Leslie tried to play down sex problems, but they soon bulked too large to ignore. A physician, a lawyer and a sociologist were hired as her consultants. Her column...
Finally, by 1933, the political situation had become more stable, and on July 8, an exchange was finally effected. In place of the sarcophagus slab, the Fogg received a marble column from a monastery in Santiago, a double capital from a thirteenth century monastery in Palencia, some ancient Spanish pottery and 24 small bronze figures. The latter were found in a sanctuary near a mining district and may have been votive offerings to the gods of minerals...