Word: column
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Pausing an instant to collect his energies, Billy Patterson dashed at the head of the column. . . . Patterson had utterly routed the front, when 'Spicer' who was bringing up the rear . . . prepared to meet the burly antagonist...
...noted with interest your reference to Norwegian elkhounds in your Cinema column reviewing The Hound of the Baskervilles-TIME, April...
...matter of fact I think my success as a writer is due almost entirely to my lack of education. You see, some people have called me a literary stylist, but that's not al all true. My education was so meagre that when I started to write my column, I didn't have the faintest idea of how to spell the words I ran up against. Consequently, I just spell them the way they sound--herz d'ecuvres are just plain "aw-devres...
...really don't give a darn about my readers in the writing of my column. All that matters is that it be interesting to me. This life is a great deal of fun, and I enjoy every minute of it--I'd quit right away if I didn't. So, in my column, I try to keep up the fun; nothing is ever included that would prove boring...
Winchell defended his column, "My attitude may seem a bit pompous to you but when you consider the stuff most of the columnist do include in their work, my approach can be excused. The ties, splits, and expectancies are of minor interest to me, and a close glance at my column will show that they are put in the background by my editorializing...