Word: columning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When not yarn-spinning, salty William McFee writes a weekly column in the New York Sun on shipping, does considerable puttering around his Westport, Conn, home. Last week publishers Doubleday, Doran & Co., launching Author McFee's Derelicts, called attention to one of his neatest puttering jobs, a 30-in. scale model of a lifeboat propelled not by oars, but by a propeller turned by hand levers like those on an Irish Mail scooter...
Having hesitated for a decade to boost the Fleming boat in his ship news column or in his books because it would have meant "recommending a proprietary article," William McFee last week found himself forced by interviewers to deliver what amounted to a sales talk for his cousin's invention. Reminding his listeners that few ship passengers are experienced or horny-handed enough to handle 14-foot oars, he summed up the lever-run boat's chief advantage thus: "It can make four knots-a better speed than a trained crew of oarsmen can make-with a bevy...
Like most of Evie's antics, this one had a purpose: to attract attention to 1) her new daily column, "Eve's Rib," in the Washington Times and Sunday Herald-Times, and 2) herself, as a candidate for a $9,000 a year job as a District of Columbia Commissioner. Of the President Columnist Evie gushed the other day: "He was so charming that I forgot to be frightened. ... It was quite the most impressive experience I've had, and had it not been for that great personality, I would have been scared to death...
...Curley by a plurality that is expected to exceed 100,000. Elsewhere, Governor Lehman of New York was reelected but in other key states the Democrats suffered heavy losses. At 4 o'clock this morning Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Rhode Island, Ohio and Kansas had apparently returned to the Republican column...
KOMAROM, Czech-Hungarian Frontier--Regent Nicholas de Horthy of Hungary, riding a prancing steed, today led a column of Hungarian cavalry across the Danube and into this medieval town where he formally claimed 4,787 square miles of territory surrendered by Czechoslovakia...