Word: column
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...malicious. There are, no doubt, reasonable objections to the new plan for oral examinations. But the statement that it is a plan of the "shrinking violets among the faculty" to replace "petty inferiority complexes" with "true professorial pomposity" itself "smacks of the bull-ring" more than of the editorial column. To attack the plan by calling the originators of it names is a confession of the writer's own inability to think of any better arguments. To call it "boot-licking" simply because it is a system which has been used at Oxford and Cambridge is arguments by epithet...
Despite the delightful implications of your note on the death of Blue Boy, "of overeating and overgrooming, in Hollywood," I add my objection to that of Rev. Alfred Gilberg of Helena, Mont. at its inclusion in a column containing the obituaries of certain of the eminent men and women he mentions (TIME...
...word. At $210,000, the 14,000 words of The Life of Our Lord are worth $15 each, highest price ever paid for a newspaper syndicate feature. Highest price per word hitherto has been the $3,000 weekly that Will Rogers gets for his small daily column. The McClure Syndicate paid Calvin Coolidge $2 a word for 200 words a day. Arthur Brisbane gets $250,000 a year but not more than 25? a word. President Roosevelt has not written for newspapers since his election. If he did, he could probably ask and get $15 a word...
Wrote Westbrook Pegler who, at $35,000 a year, earns about 10? a word for his United Feature column: "The piece has been accumulating compound interest, so to speak, for more than 60 years.... I have heard of Mr. Tennyson that he made a contract to sell his entire output to one publisher at a flat rate of $5 a word, sight unseen, and that the publisher suspected him of bad faith when Mr. Tennyson wrote "Break, break, break On thy cold gray stones...
Read TIME from cover to cover, omitting this column. Return to this column, quiz yourself. He who correctly answers 15 or more of the questions does well...