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Word: columnist (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Book. What happens aboard a passenger ship when the passengers go ashore? On the vessels to which Engineer-Author McFee was articled, there would be good conversation and perhaps some light drinking in the officers' quarters. If the port were New York, a columnist (Don Marquis?) would come aboard, a fictionist (Christopher Morley?) and one or two more with a taste for books and life. A "doctor" (William McFee) would manipulate the discourse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Benevolent Marbleheart* | 6/8/1925 | See Source »

...Lake and J. T. Wheelwright falling victim to his facile pen. Mr. Flagg, however, did not forget himself, and published a brilliant sketch of himself, suitcase in hand, rushing for the Lampoon dinner. John T. Wheelwright '76, noted lawyer and trustee of the Lampoon, and Neal O'Hara '15, columnist of the Boston Traveler, are other speakers tonight, R. E. Summer '25, retiring Ibis, will be toastmaster...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LAMPOON ENTERTAINS 90 AT ANNUAL DINNER | 4/11/1925 | See Source »

These Spring fancies which the sport writers tender their public are quite without malice or forethought. There is a simple naivete about them which should be commended and not condemned. The sport writer has become temporarily a columnist, a writer of fiction...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE SPORTIVE COLUMN | 3/23/1925 | See Source »

...asking that sons of Harvard graduates be given a ten per cent, advantage over other applicants for admission to the University, the columnist of the Harvard Graduates Magazine has probably mistaken his public. That most graduates prefer to send their sons to their own college is certain enough--but that Harvard graduates would care to see their own sons pulled or pushed through the gates in preference to more capable sons of "less fortunate nativity" operating under their own power, is extremely doubtful...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "LAME DUCKS!" | 3/14/1924 | See Source »

...these,* subtitled His First Biography, is by a Massachusetts politician who served in the Massachusetts legislature with the now President. The other?, called A Contemporary Estimate, is by the political columnist of the Boston Herald. Both are in the nature of biographies. Both suffer from the fact that Mr. Coolidge has never been at pains to provide good material for a Boswell or a Macaulay, and hardly less from the lack of a true Boswell or Macaulay...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Naive Biographies | 1/21/1924 | See Source »

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