Word: column
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Japan's plan to capture Hankow, China's acting capital, is first to cut all the city's communications, then gradually encircle it. Last week, a Japanese column tightened the net around the capital by capturing strategic Hwangchwan, north of the Yangtze. Another column captured one of a series of river booms at Wusueh, 100 miles down the river from Hankow. Meanwhile, Japanese aviators bombed away at their main objective, the Canton-Hankow Railway...
What she brought to society reporting was not only a gift of phrase, but a lively news sense, and the ability to see the group she records as a current in the general news stream. When Broker Richard Whitney crashed, Reporter Robb's column was devoted to reporting what lunchers at "21" and the Colony had to say about it. Few society reporters take so newsworthy an approach. She spurns the usual drivel of rumor and chitchat...
...Freshman who wish to relax from the rigors of registration during the weekend, Boston's cinema houses offer one excellent picture and several more worth the dissipation of a few hours. Most appealing to this column is Warner Brothers' "Four Daughters", at the Metropolitan, which stars the Lane sisters, Claude Rains, and John Garfield. As yet it marks the best of the "homey" stories with which Hollywood has been recently concerned, having more originality and better acting than the successful "Love Finds Andy Hardy." Garfield, whose first name on Broadway was Jules, is without question the most distinctive, actor...
...brighten the evening American, General Manager Connolly announced he would use two brand-new Hearstlings: Inez Callaway Robb, weaned away from Joseph Medill Patterson's New York Daily News where she wrote a lively society column under the Newsname "Nancy Randolph," and Francis J. Powers, former sportswriter for the New York...
More remarkable than the fact that one of the most active gadders in the U. S. can find time to turn out a daily column is the fact that in doing so she has consistently avoided making serious boners. Without being maudlin or saying an ill word of anyone, she generally manages to say what she means. But most gratifying to millions of women readers who write her thousands of letters is Mrs. Roosevelt's ability to make the nation's most exalted household seem like anybody else's: "The White House is crowded with guests these...