Word: column
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After showing large surpluses on 1935 and 1936, the Athletic Association budget slipped into the red ink column with a deficit of $758.61 for the year ending June...
Gerrie is right, but his column unlike that of Mr. Reeves did not appear daily, often lapsed for weeks at a time. One or two others also preceded Alfred Reeves but not as regular daily columnists writing on automobiles exclusively...
...sufficiently well coordinated to show what it could really do in the way of rapid motion. On Nov. 8, after a breakfast of 12,000 apples, 24,000 eggs, 560 Ib. of coffee, the P. I. D., operating with 10,000 men set out from San Antonio in three columns to bivouac grounds 150 miles farther North. Two successive night marches, made in complete darkness except for the lights of cars leading columns, enabled it to catch the slow-moving Red army at Mineral Wells. P. I. D. roundly defeated it in a sham engagement of which one result...
Meanwhile Mme Chiang, in her daily column to the U. S. press, radioed from Nanking: "Tokyo's acclamation of Matsui as a hero on Chinese soil has gone to his head . . . strongest wine of militaristic adulation . . . Japanese war lords drunk with their hollow success at Shanghai . . . power lust...
Both talented pianist and lively music critic is Arthur Loesser of Cleveland. Morning after he played in a recital, there appeared in his Cleveland Press column a picture of Critic Loesser, an other of Performer Loesser. Wrote critic of performer: "Mr. Loesser seems to have been bitten by the irritating bug of wanting to do something farfetched. . . . Mr. Loesser succumbed to his favorite vice, that of listening to the sound of his own voice. . . . The Scarlatti pieces were not badly done, chiefly, because their atmosphere of refined wisecracking is congenial with Mr. Loesser's personality...