Word: columning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Heywood Broun began writing his column in the World in 1921; F. P. A. moved The Conning Tower from the Tribune in 1922; in 1923 Walter Lippmann took charge of the editorial page; from 1925 to 1928 Alexander Woollcott flourished as the World's dramatic critic. Rollin Kirby wrote editorials when he felt like it, besides drawing his long-chinned Prohibitionist, his side-whiskered, potbellied G. O. Partisan and many another famed character. He won his first Pulitzer Prize in 1921 (On the Road to Moscow), another in 1924 (News from the Outside World) and a third...
...Berrey did most of his research in Walter Winchell's column, Variety, Billboard, "cinemags," Reader's Digest, TIME, LIFE. Some nuggets...
...syndicated column, My Day, Eleanor Roosevelt revealed that she sometimes takes voice lessons: "I have had a lesson this morning with Mrs. Elizabeth von Hesse, who tries in the brief opportunities I occasionally give her to improve my speaking voice. All I can say is that if she is successful I consider her a most extraordinary teacher, for I give her very little opportunity to teach...
...Review, which contemporaries considered a far greater achievement than Robinson Crusoe, was largely filled with dull political and economic arguments, but it did introduce the first gossip column, the first society news and first advice to the lovelorn in English-language journalism. Like Dorothy Dix, Editor Defoe spun many a moral sermon in order to get a confessional letter into print. Sample from his "Advice from the Scandal Club" column: "Gentlemen ... I desire your advice in the following Case. I am something in Years, yet have a great Affection for my Neighbour's Wife, and she no less...
This week, while the Daughters continued to preserve a thin-lipped silence, Daughter Eleanor Roosevelt announced in her syndicated Scripps-Howard column that she was resigning from the D. A. R. in protest...