Word: columnist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...poet with a substantial Catholic following is Rev. Leonard Feeney, 39, author of Fish on Friday, Riddle and Reverie, Boundaries. Dark, wiry Father Feeney taught English at Boston College from the time of his ordination nine years ago until he lately joined the Jesuit weekly, America, as columnist. As a guest preacher, he mounted the pulpit of Manhattan's St. Patrick's Cathedral the Sunday before Christmas and, conscious of the superb sounding-board which that great fane afforded him, sermonized on a subject which he had half-whimsically, half-seriously pondered. Said Father Feeney...
...That chipper little Irish columnist, Edward Arthur Donald St. George Hamilton Chichester, Marquess of Donegall continued silent in print about the King & Mrs. Simpson but complained in private of the service he is getting from a Milwaukee clipping bureau. It had already littered his house and office with 20,000 different clippings about the King & Mrs. Simpson last week when he canceled his order by cable. Next day the postman brought 6,000 more clippings and Lord Donegall deplored what his curiosity was going to cost...
...columnist who knew the answer to this was the New York World-Telegram's sharp Westbrook Pegler. "They do have their laws in England," he wrote, "but if a story is big enough an English paper can go ahead and print it-and get away with it, as the late Lord Northcliffe proved in his historic expose of the shell shortage in the early days of the World War. Under the Defense of the Realm Act, Northcliffe could have been locked up in the Tower and hanged...
This week the Paramount and Fenway offer entertainment of the pick-him-up-and-knock-him-down variety. As an antidote to the adventures of a wise-cracking radio columnist is shown a grand, old mother and son saga which is guaranteed to jerk a tear every foot...
...star talent secured by our contemporary college newspapers aften makes us a bit apologetic about our own home-spun product. Last year the Yale News had an undergraduate columnist of such mettle that recently that paper came forward as publisher of his collected gems at two dollars per copy. Determined to outdo us all, the Daily Princetonian has incorporated Gertrude Stein into its staff. Careful as ever not to appear ostentatious, it does not even advertise its prize, and has made her start from the very botom writing the notice column. Since no one else could have possibly written...