Word: columning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...month Cavalcade's muddling had Sir George's attorneys again on the trail. While Editor Brittain was away recuperating from his strenuous July, another blunderling picked an old letter from Cavalcade's, unused type, slapped it into the August 7 issue to fill out a column. By the weirdest chance this second letter attacked Sir George for attacking Catholicism: Didactic, Semitic, would-be letter -writer George Turner should learn that in the art of good journalism lies the avoidance of tautology. His very being would de novo prefer Islam and his statement of such fact is redundant...
Until news of the completion of architectural masterpieces is screamed from the headlines of the U. S. press. I count on TIME for as many unprovoked seven-column eulogies on Frank Lloyd Wright and others of his stature as seem necessary to keep readers informed about progress in this phase of our civilization. Congratulations on following and printing the cumulative news that is rarely run as front-page stuff today but tomorrow makes chapter headings in history...
...Powers. Mr. Powers had hit Mr. Van Every. Mr. Miley had hit Mr. Powers. Mr. Powers had hit Mr. Miley. For the first blow, Mr. Van Every had this explanation: "Powers swiped a story from the Sun, written by Herbert Gorem and used it in his out-of-town column. ... I asked him if he denied swiping the article. . . He called me a liar so I slapped his face." Mr. Miley said his belligerence arose from befriending Mr. Van Every...
...last fall blood was bad between Jimmy Powers and most of the rest of the usually amiable press corps that covers most of the world's biggest sporting events. Some of this bad blood spilled over a fortnight ago when Editor Powers devoted his Daily News column to a biting parable about "Snow Mike and the Seven Dwarfs," plainly identifiable as Promoter Jacobs, two members of the State boxing commission and five sports writers, among them Mr. Van Every. Fairy-tale-teller Powers related solemnly how the Seven Dwarfs had promised Snow Mike "they would all 'take care...
...Parker's parable went on to belittle Screwball Bowers' sports knowledge, questioned his sincerity and significantly wound up with a reference to a tale that had been going the sporting rounds for some time: "He was also honest in the case of Jack Smiley, who wrote a column for Screwball's paper ('the Daily Snooze') until he got too good and met the fate of all who dare make the Screwball look like what he is-a five-letter word rhyming with drowsy. After putting in a lot of research work on it, Smiley turned...