Word: columning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Besides complete coverage of the Rabbits' athletic activities, an editorial page, and a news story, there were two gossip columns, one concerned with sports entitled "Carrots and Lettuce" and Halter Hinchell's column which spared no facts in the Bunnie's private lives...
Something was the matter and its name was Henry Louis Mencken. Instead of a tidy page full of editorials, letters to the editor, etc., there was just one column of editorials. Where the other six columns have been was a great open space covered with tiny black dots, like the background of a cut-1,000,075 dots in all. In the adjoining editorial the Evening Sun explained that each dot represented one person in the Federal Government's ''immense corps of jobholders. . . . The dots, unfortunately, had to be made very small. . . . Even so, the chart...
Still probably the best-reading of U. S. labor papers is the American Guardian, edited in Oklahoma City by Socialist Oscar Ameringer. A laborite Will Rogers, he expresses his philosophy in his editorial column each week. Sample: "Nobody asked us yet, but if we were called upon to draw a picture of contemporary civilization, we'd draw a bunch of naked blind men trying to pick each others' pockets with pitchforks...
...rumor first appeared in the column of a New York sports-writer and was reprinted in a local paper. The assumption is that the columnist made a deduction from the case of "Pop" Warner whose assistants preceded him to his job at Stanford, but it was made perfectly clear yesterday that Pennsylvania's importation of the "Harlow system" would stop short of its originator...
...Moscow, perpetually astounded Correspondent Walter Duranty experienced spasms of amazement at the diffident manner in which the drama was handled in the Soviet press. Cabled he: "Today each Moscow newspaper gives their plight 66 lines of print in a brief double column with a bald single headline. 'On Drifting Station of Comrade Ivan Papanin.' Can you beat...