Word: columning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this is being written it seems probable the Reorganization Bill will be on its way to the White House for signature-before this column is published. . . . We may look for a mournful recital of the supineness and rubber-stampedness of a cowering Congress that could not summon enough courage to stand out against an overbearing Chief Executive." Day that the above premature excerpt from his weekly handout. Dispelling the Fog, was scheduled to be released to the press last week, the Democratic National Committee's publicity director Charles ("The Mike") Michelson sent out a hasty request to editors that...
During the late '20s The New Yorker employed a bright young man who wrote a column called The Sky Line, noting the erection of Manhattan's new apartment houses and office buildings. In the criticism of architecture The Sky Line included such amiable judgments as that the new, incredibly ornate and lugubrious Roxy Theatre was "a truly fine expression of what a place of entertainment should be." In the autumn of 1932 Lewis Mumford took over The Sky Line and speedily transformed it into its present role of the most perceptive, severe and expert column of architectural criticism...
...take several London papers and have been amused to see the way their writers used the TIME article as a peg on which to hang columns and columns about "Our Gracie." In the London Daily Express a four column analysis by James Agate is headed "IS GRACIE FIELDS COMMON?" The concluding words are, "She is common, vulgar, and low. Bless...
Some weeks ago Gossip Walter Winchell announced in his syndicated column that Einstein was writing a book on physics "which you, you and you can understand." It is doubtful whether many of Columnist Winchell's "you's" will find The Evolution of Physics light reading. The Book-of-the-Month Club considered the manuscript at length, finally rejected it as a club selection, fearing an avalanche of returns from readers who would find it too difficult. Yet the U. S. publishers have turned out a first printing of 5,000 copies. Cambridge University Press, which is handling...
...latest work only a small column of bubbles appeared in the center of the ice. Riggs believes that by covering the ice with oil he can remove this trouble...