Word: columning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Duce had not expelled, nor was he likely to expel the most experienced handout accepter in all Rome, New York Times Correspondent Arnaldo Cortesi. Instead Dictator Mussolini barred from Italy for an indefinite period the New York Times, which continued to maintain Mr. Cortesi in Rome, printed a column from him on the subject of Mr. Darrah's expulsion...
When I wrote myself barren, I went down to the presses to see if I could not find further inspiration to fill out the final four inches of the column. Fumbling nervously around the presses I was thrown into violent contact with this appropriate block-head "On the Rack." The odds are three to one that you have never seen this before but I swear on my word of honor it is supposed to be a regular column of the CRIMSON...
...like this column and would like it to appear at regular intervals, I wish you would let us know by letter or in person at our building, 14 Plympton Street. 176 words, I think that does the trick...
...This column, they tell me, requires real literary style. It is reputedly not only the best written column in the paper but the cleverest. Since I am a news man, I am reported to possess neither intelligence or wit. While I have no intention of relinquishing my dubious claims to modesty, I am sure that we all think this little idea of mine shows a great deal of originality...
...just can't keep up this bluff any longer, for we are but one. I am faced with the ghastly prospect of filling up not only this column but also the one on the right. If you are still with me, I hope that you will note that it is filled and let it go at that. I have...