Word: columning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mustached British General named Robert Cornells Napier landed on the coast of Eritrea with 32,000 men, six cannon and a herd of baggage elephants. Into Ethiopia they marched to punish Emperor Theodore for the torture and imprisonment of a group of British officers. Three months later the British column had fought its way some 400 miles inland and had defeated Theodore's tribesmen at Magdala. Emperor Theodore promptly blew his brains out with a revolver presented to him by Queen Victoria. By June 18, five months after the expedition had started, the last British soldier had left Africa...
Next Saturday in this column there will be a discussion of specific paintings and prints in the exhibition.Self-Portalt, by Paul Gaughin...
Nearing the city, the first thing they saw was Asfa Wassan's skirmishers, disappearing over the mountain top. Dessye was deserted. An exhausted runner had just arrived from Gerado with news of an advancing column of Italian cavalry followed by tanks, motor trucks. They could only be a mile or two behind him. Just at dusk the Crown Prince came down from his mountain hideaway on muleback to pack his personal belongings at the old palace. At the first bursts of rifle fire on the outskirts of town, he scuttled back to the hills. Correspondent Steer and the British...
Blasting President Roosevelt with all the vituperative power at his command, David Lawrence, noted Washington correspondent, has charged the Administration with trying to censor his column. When a G. O. P. authority mentioned Lawrence's name among a list of prominent syndicated writers, Charlie Michelson, Democratic hero of the 1932 "smear Hoover" campaign, immediately dubbed him a Republican hireling, and hence unworthy to interpret the news. Resenting Administrative hostility and scenting a plot to strangle independent newsmen, Lawrence has raised a long and justifiable howl...
...facts stand, Michelson does not appear to have put on any dangerous dictatorial powers or attempted to club the press into abolishing Lawrence and his column. But the incident gains significance as an example of the fear in which the men who oppose the Administration walk. Lawrence's outburst sounds like the premature cry of a threatened child, but in a genuinely democratic country governmental officials should stand in danger of losing their jobs when they take so uncompromising and menacing an attitude as Michelson has adopted toward his critics...