Word: columnist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Wizard Hiram W. Evans of the Ku Klux Klan sounded from Atlanta "the clarion call to battle" against Huey Long. Here and there a bold Louisianan tearfully predicted "killings and bloodshed in this State." Newspaper editors in & out of the State deplored and decried. But it remained for sophisticated Columnist Westbrook Pegler to write from Baton Rouge...
Thus last week wrote Columnist Heywood Broun of Raymond Mathewson Hood who at 40 was penniless and obscure and who, when he died of arthritis last week at 53, was as famed as any architect in the U. S. A childhood with religious parents in Pawtucket, R. I. made him so rigorous a Baptist that, when he entered the Beaux Arts in Paris, he refused even to look at Notre Dame because it was Catholic. Later he lost the vigor of his religious beliefs but never his lusty delight in arguments, his habit of sloppy dressing, his inordinate liking...
...Columnist Arthur Brisbane gloated: "Geese will say 'How terrible to spend so much money for one picture in these times.' Wise men will say to the geese: 'You wouldn't get the money anyhow if he didn't buy the picture. He is to be praised for bringing that magnificent work of art to his own country, where thousands of young artists will see and be inspired by it.' Mr. Mellon is generous, lending his finest paintings for public exhibition...
...onetime Secretary of the Treasury was deserving neither of Governor Pinchot's criticism nor of Columnist Brisbane's praise, for he had bought no picture by Raphael or anybody else from U.S.S.R...
...Mortal. Now appears The Second House from the Corner, written in the same whimsical, speculative vein, with the same familiar snatches from the cracker barrel of homespun philosophy. Some of the fragments are pretty stale and moldy. Author Miller writes about himself after the manner of a daily columnist. Now he has built himself a house. He serves up 34 disconnected pieces about the new edifice and the community in which he and his wife find themselves. He fails to give the name of the town but it is plainly one of those small suburban "paradises" on the California coast...