Word: column
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stamped their feet and babbled in the true Hearstian metaphysic, and in this wise many heads have been broken and many papers sold. But their energy has not created a movement: the main current of British journalism is placid and undisturbed, and in the mention of a double column headline its managing editors still find the potent smell of heresy...
...week in the effort to bolster up whatever opinions he may have with a body of elementary fact. For evidence that the result is horrid, one need only look to such courses as Government 1, History 11, English 28. One might continue; but a typical list would fill a column. Compelled by regulation, and by a false notion of undergraduate capacity, the speaker fills up his thirty of forty lectures a year with text book material, has little opportunity to display the wares of his thought, and counts the year well spent if he write part of another book...
Died. William Louis Veeck, 56, president of the Chicago Cubs; of leucocythaemia: in Chicago. Fourteen years ago the Cubs' owner, the late William Wrigley Jr., rubbed raw by withering criticism administered almost daily in Sportswriter Veeck's column, called him in and sarcastically offered him the job of running the club. Veeck accepted. During his tenure the Cubs won two pennants, lost both World Series...
...parade will be headed by Kanrick's band and the classes will form, in order, behind. The column will march down Boylston street into the Stadium, where the spectators will be seated in those sections which are in the bowl. The classes will assemble at the south end of the Stadium to cheer President Lowell, who will occupy a seat in Section 19. There will be a large display of fireworks outside the Stadium at the North end, in addition to hundreds of lights in and around the Stadium, and each undergraduate will be equipped with a torch...
...sports writer like the late Ring Lardner, Joe Williams, William McGeehan and Paul Gallico (who will replace Pegler on the Chicago Tribune Syndicate) to perfect sarcastic styles. It is unlikely that a wider field will decrease Pegler's eloquence or his impatience. He plans to-call his new column "Sweetness and Light...