Word: column
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first time since the Revolution, stern Bolshevik elders permitted Communist Youth Pravda to shriek in a seven-column headline last week WE WANT TO DRESS ATTRACTIVELY! Youth Pravda was permitted to flay the State clothing trust for its high-handed rejection of new styles submitted at a Moscow competition last year in favor of "old styles which are easier to make...
...pictures who barked "balogna"; the term was not, like some of Tad's, his own. "Blessed event," "phttf and "middle-aisle" by Winchell are too conscious to be slang; "whoopee," old when he first used it, is already obsolete. "Bugs" Baer's small Hearst column contains wisecracks like "ears like handles on a loving cup" which are the opposite of slang. Ring Lardner, who died a week after Sime Silverman, was usually careful to avoid inventions of his own, stuck close to the jargon of baseball. Columnist Damon Runyon mixes authentic underworld talk with invented freaks. Gelett Burgess...
...Bridgeton, N. J., last week Editor Isadore Levine of the Bridgeton Record wrote in his weekly gossip-column: "A number of physicians' cars have been seen parked near a Burlington Avenue home. It must be an interesting 'case'." When...
...during a heat wave. ... It is probably the most veracious travel book ever written; and it is certainly the least instructive." Young Peter Fleming gave up a good job as literary editor of London's weekly Spectator when he saw a notice in the Times's "agony column" about a forthcoming expedition to central Brazil for which he volunteered and was accepted. Avowed purpose of the expedition was to ascertain the mysterious fate of Colonel Fawcett, British explorer lost in the Matto Grosso with two other men in 1925. Leader of the party was one Major "George Lewy...
...call your attention to a double-column advertisement in the current issue of Time, in which, under a prominently displayed Veritas seal, "The Graduate School of Business Administration of Harvard University Announces its Second EXTRA SESSION...especially designed for young men of ability..." One looked on with more cynicism than surprise when the H. A. A. took to boosting the sale of football tickets by subway posters, but one hardly expected to find the Business School seducing unwary prospects by magazine advertisements. Apparently its ballyhoo about placing all its graduates (as clerks in chain groceries) isn't having its calculated...