Word: columning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...almost as wide attention throughout the land as do those of Mrs. Woodrow Wilson and Mrs. Franklin Roosevelt (see col. 1). Miss Thompson's husband, Novelist Sinclair Lewis, in his most famed book, Main Street, reached fewer U. S. voters than Miss Thompson reaches daily in her syndicated column On The Record (audience: 7,000,000). Last week Dorothy Thompson picked up a phrase by Herbert Hoover-"Ideas cannot be cured with battleships"-and retorted: "Ideas can certainly be spread and suppressed by the sword. . . . The spreading of ideas by economic sanctions-i.e., force-has already too deeply...
...pair of Washington newspapermen has made the Justices of the U. S. Supreme Court more uncomfortable than able, caustic Drew Pearson and Robert S. Allen. Their Nine Old Men was a best seller of 1936. Their Washington Merry-Go-Round, political gossip column, rarely misses a chance to plant a tack on a Justice's padded chair. But last week it was the Court's turn to make Pearson and Allen uncomfortable, and they did a thoroughgoing...
...through a second week at the Met; and "Gunga Din," replete with a tribe of murderous Indian natives, is still at Keith's. All three, and especially "grand Illusion," are worth seeing; likewise the new Joan (Hedy Lamarr) Bennett, coming to Loew's in "Trade Winds"--of which this column will have more to say tomorrow. Finally, the latest reports indicate that the University has successfully weathered the Chicago fire and is coming forth today with Bing Crosby in "Paris Honeymoon." Concerning, of course, neither Paris nor a honeymoon, it is nevertheless in the approved Crosby manner--casual, sophisticated, sentimental...
...fell, the Loyalist Government called out all men to help build fortifications to withstand a siege, the city was war weary and apathetic. The job was quietly sabotaged. Many evaded the draft, many worked only halfheartedly. In the last few days before the fall, many Rebel sympathizers-the "Fifth Column"-openly showed their political feelings...
...London Times's agony column, British sportsmen were agonized to read this advertisement: "?70 BURSARY* OFFERED at first-class Prep. School to BOY promising at games...