Word: columnist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When beefy, bullet-headed Valentine Edward Charles Browne, Viscount Castle-rosse, England's No. i chitchat columnist (Daily Express), fell sick in London's Claridge's Hotel, he disobeyed his doctor's orders by continuing to gulp champagne, devour oysters, receive socialite friends. Result: his doctor moved him to a maternity ward...
Introduced to a Chicago lecture audience by Novelist Margaret Aver Barnes (Years of Grace, Wisdom's Gate), Sinclair Lewis declared that he and her husband, Chicago Attorney Cecil Barnes, are in the same boat: "I also am married to a very distinguished woman [talkative Columnist Dorothy Thompson]. She disappeared into the NBC building ten years...
Among nationally prominent people who may join the sessions are Dorothy Thompson, columnist for the New York Herald Tribune; Sumner Welles and Francis B. Sayre of the State Department; Edsel Ford and Alfred P. Sloan, representing the automobile industry; Admiral Land, of the Maritime Commission; Walter Lippmann; Matthew Woll, labor leader, and Roger Baldwin, of the American Civil Liberties Union...
...Probably not," was his answer to a query regarding the possibility of a European war in the near future, but he likened himself to Lord Castleross, 280-pound English columnist, who asserted, 'I'm only a poor columnist but I'm the only one who doesn't know exactly what's going on in the minds of Hitler and Mussolini...
Rollin Kirby had been a failure as a painter and a magazine illustrator when Columnist Franklin Pierce Adams got him a job as cartoonist for the New York Evening Mail in 1911. He went to the World in 1913, first of the small group of men who contributed to that brief flowering of literate criticism and liberal opinion, the World's editorial and "opp.-ed." (opposite-editorial) pages of the 1920s...