Word: column
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...their high power London news-organs, England's Press peers complained that the program of George V's Jubilee procession is only half a column long, whereas Queen Victoria's in 1897 was a five-column procession. Headlined the Star: "A FOUR HOUR WAIT-FOR WHAT? Misgivings about the lack of pageantry...
Last week the Supreme Court of the U. S. declared Eugene Meyer winner. The Post celebrated its victory with a six-column cartoon showing an imposing robed figure (Supreme Court) sternly pointing to a facsimile of the Post's front page, toward which Andy Gump, Winnie Winkle, Skeezix & family, Dick Tracy obediently trudged. Caption: "To Your Post...
...unfamiliar to this column is the matter of telephones for undergraduates. A mild request for administrative consideration of this question has appeared here at least once each year. The same arguments have been reiterated each time, and then the matter has been dropped for another year...
Here's for a bigger and better Miscellany column-and thanks...
Columbia's President Nicholas Murray Butler, who gets his biography into one column and one line of Who's Who only by the device of listing decorations from twelve foreign countries "and so forth," honorary degrees from 20 universities "and many others," announced that Chile had made him a Grand Officer of the Order of Merit; that Cuba had given him the Grand Cross of the Order of Carlos Finlay and Greece the Cross of the Grand Commander of the Order of the Saviour; that the University of Edinburgh had promised him an LL. D. in June...