Word: column
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Literary Digest's poll, for this week, records 43 states out of 44 in the wet column, with over two million votes cast. Twenty-three of these states are for complete repeal, and twenty for modification...
Author Ben Ray Redman, 34, served in the Royal Flying Corps during the War, was scout pilot of the 79th Squadron of the British Expeditionary Forces. Poet, critic, essayist, translator, short-story-writer, he was literary editor of The Spur, now writes a weekly column, "Old Wine in New Bottles," for the New York Herald Tribune. In 1926 he married Actress Frieda Inescort. Other books: Masquerade, Edwin Arlington Robinson, Gustave Flaubert-a Biography...
Elsewhere in this column there is a copy of an Hour Examination given in English 72 last Friday. The usual objection that examinations are mere regurgitation of facts is totally out of place in this instance. To the contrary, the questions under present consideration are excellent examples of the so called "thinking" type; but such qualities, regardless of their individual excellence, are completely ineffective when there is insufficient time to record these thoughts, as was the case last Friday...
...Editor's Note--The above letter was received yesterday together with a clipping of the epyllion entitled "Bridget and Mary" or "It all Came Out in the Wash" which appeared in "The Crime" column on last Tuesday. Sceptics will be cordially received in the CRIMSON office today where the original epistle will be on view...
Adam Fenwick-Symes has just finished his autobiography in Paris and is bringing it home, but the manuscript is confiscated by the authorities in Dover as obscene. So he becomes a society-gossip writer for a London newspaper: his column, getting more and more imaginative, becomes more and more successful until one day he goes too far. Then he lives on credit, and on the hopes of collecting ?35,000 which a drunken major wins for him on a horse race. He and the major occasionally meet but always lose each other before the money can change hands. Adam...