Word: columning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...material: the first half of Morton Thompson's front page column in the Hollywood Citizen-News. The agency: Owner-Editor Harlan Guyant Palmer. Reason: It was so complimentary to virtuous Judge Palmer it brought "unexplainable tears" to his eyes. During a bitter Guild strike five months ago the Citizen-News printed an entire column by Thompson describing "the despicable traits" of Editor Palmer...
Practically all of the Crimson touchdowns were set in motion by some sort of Windy City misdemeanor. Harvard first dented the score column, however, without any such add. It was early in the second period, after Austic Harding had relieved Frank Foley at tailback. First Harding just missed confection on a pass to Torb Macdonald; then with Torb on the tossing side, Harding took the business end himself and dove over the line...
...class of 1942 "A" group ratings were given 121 men: 473 were listed in the "B" column, 234 in the "C," and 132 in the "D." Annually 1000 Freshmen undergo the department's examination, part of which is a study of the individual's back, feet and general balance...
Appointed "social ambassadress-at-large" for San Francisco's 1939 Golden Gate International Exposition was Manhattan café society's clown, Elsa Maxwell. Irked, the N. Y. Daily News's World's Fair-conscious "Nancy Randolph" (real name: Frances Kilkenny) wrote: ". . . To-day this column intends to whack Grover Whalen hard for letting the rival San Francisco Exposition grab that peerless partygiver and fun-maker, Elsa Maxwell. Of course, Grover Whalen has Mrs. Astor . . . but she doesn't like publicity...
Instead of introducing drugs into the fluid of the spinal canal, and affecting the entire circulatory and nervous systems, the anesthetists filled the empty epidural space at the base of the spine (between the inner wall of the spinal column and the sheath of the spinal cord) with 30-60 cubic centimeters of distilled water solutions of pantocain. metycaine, intracaine or other similar local anesthetics...