Word: columnist
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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That is typical of the sneering writings of that columnist, Heywood Broun. At least, TIME, I am glad that you were gentlemanly enough not to quote that sentence from Mr. Broun in your Sacco & Vanzetti story (TIME, Aug. 15). All good Americans should know that Mr. Broun is the most blasphemous son Harvard ever had. And I hope that all good Harvard men as well as the New York World will disown...
Translations. "What did choose mean?" people asked. Reliable Vermonters were found who said it was a cautious colloquialism for "want." Funnyman Will Rogers and others declared it as foxy a word as an adroit politician ever selected. Columnist Heywood Broun thought it had "magnificent swank." Senator Bruce of Maryland, with Democratic irony, quoted Macbeth: "If chance will have me King, why, chance may crown...
There are two groups of these businessmen. In one group are three onetime advertising men. Last spring they started the "Book of the Month Club." They engaged Editors Henry Seidel Canby and Christopher Morley (Saturday Review of Literature) and William Allen White (Emporia, Kans., Gazette), Columnist Heywood Broun (N. Y. World) and Novelist Dorothy Canfield, to be a committee to vote on new books each month. They notified the publishers that here was a fine chance for them. The book voted "book of the month" would gain distinction (publicity). Also it would be bought by the Club by the thousand...
When F. V. Morley, brother of thunderer upon the left Christopher Morley, set sail with two friends down the Thames? in their converted ship's lifeboat Wife of Bath he naturally found many such bits of rare Anglicana as the Martyr's epitaph above. Young Morley, like his columnist-novelist brother, is one of those for whom any river will wimple with apt allusion. Half the poets of England creep into Mr. Morley's book, a pat line or stanza from each. And he can himself do such sure telling bits as: "The first lock, by Inglesham Round House, holds...
Along about now, we have heard, there come the mid-year examinations. Every columnist and editorial writer is expected to mention these. Well, we have. . . . So there...