Word: columning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...emblazoned on the Harvard seal-a word which seems to have escaped Mr. Tunis's attention, or possibly exceeded his ability in translation-forces me to step into the white light of publicity, and confess that I am the wreck that penned those pitiful words that headline your column on Education (TIME, Sept. 14), "After 25 years I am an utter failure, morally, mentally, and financially...
...will, for meanwhile a White army under Generalissimo Francisco Franco had at last decisively taken Talavera de la Reina (see p. 19) and, advancing five miles per day, was within 25 miles of the Alcázar when torches were applied and gasoline blazed high. Cheering wildly a Red column swept up the rocky base of the fortress-only to be driven back by sickening gasoline fumes while the blaze soon guttered out on the rocks. To save his Red face after this fiasco, General José Asensio of the Red militia started talking about how sorry...
...This is Hugh Johnson," howled the General. ''Can you take down my column for tomorrow...
However, United Feature was glad to get even half a Johnson column for the New York World-Telegram, 30 other papers. Scarcely two months ago, few of the 2,273,222 readers thus affected would have cared if Hugh Johnson Says had completely failed to appear. Difference between the storm-racked Johnson column of last week and its beginnings represented one of the year's most sudden and startling reversals of journalistic form...
They were hailed as brothers by Anarchist leaders, told that they could have the honor of immediately marching on to fight against the Whites while untenable San Sebastian went up in glorious flames. Snarled the Basque column commander: "We have not come to take orders but to give them...