Word: columning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...time since the War. Rare in the boom years of 1917-18 and 1928, they were more than twice as frequent in the 1932 depression as in the 1921 depression. In 1934, after Hitler's rise, they "occurred at the amazingly high rate of once in every column inch of advertising matter-five times as frequent as in 1932." Until 1934 "one of the great New York papers"† banned the specification, but today "Christian" appears once in every 6½ column-inches, "Anglo-Saxon" once every 29. Another paper runs "Christian" once every half column-inch, "Anglo-Saxon...
...five-year-old Lindley Beckworth, newly elected Representative from Texas and youngest member of Congress, called at the House to pay his respects to Speaker Bankhead. Exclaimed the chief doorkeeper: "I thought you were one of my new page boys." In the New York Times's, Public Notices column appeared an ad signed by Manhattan Producer John Golden...
...month the Star omitted "My Day" by Eleanor Roosevelt, printed a curt paragraph explaining that "a visit Mrs. Roosevelt made yesterday to a reptile farm in Sarasota, Fla., contained no information the Star believes its readers would enjoy. . . ." Not until last week did Mrs. Roosevelt learn the reason her column was dropped-the Star's old snake taboo. She had devoted a paragraph to telling how rattlers and moccasins are "milked" for medical purposes...
...FIFTH COLUMN AND THE FIRST FORTY-NINE STORIES-Ernest Hemingway -Scribner...
...scholar, Levin says that he "just took to it." In addition to informal playing, or "jamming with Bennie Goodman and Casa-Loma, he has worked out with some of the players from Count Basie's and Andy Kerk's orchestras. Every week Levin sends to the "cleveland News" a column called "Swing," which tells of the activities of the important bands in Ohio...