Word: columnist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...winter gale Sunday night before last, howling among the eaves of tight little New Hampshire homesteads. Seated around their snug fireplaces, winter-bound New Hampshiremen listened to their radios. Those who were listening to gabby Walter Winchell's air column were in for a surprise. As a rule. Columnist Winchell confines himself to reporting who is whose "heart," what romances have "gone phffft" on "the Stem." Unexpectedly assuming the role of kingmaker, he jolted his listeners in the Granite State by announcing: "The New York Herald Tribune is plotting to boom the Republican candidate for the Presidency...
Walter Lippmann '10, editorial columnist of the New York Herald-Tribune and member of the Board of Overseers, and Bruce Bliven, managing editor or The New Republic, will speak before Harvard organizations during the next four days...
...Never Be," and in "A Natural History of the Dead," which is an excerpt from the prolix thesis on bull-fights, "Death In The Afternoon," Hemingway is bitter, and by no means at his best. "One Reader-Writes" is a letter from a young woman to a doctor columnist in which she asks him if her husband can ever be well after having "sifllus." After completing the letter she moans, saying to herself: "I wish to Christ he hadn't got any kind of malady. I don't know why he had to get a malady." This is an example...
...have grown so accustomed to thinking of war as a highly mechanized and incredibly expensive enterprise that many a sober fellow, among them your columnist, has doubted the economic possibility of a European conflict. Pondering excessively, I am unable to see that the credit agencies, governmental and private, which assisted in the confection of the World War could come to the front again, as so many observers are willing to predict, for their zeal has cooled and their money is padlocked, and mere subsistence is difficult for them. The kind of war which we spell with a capital letter...
...future, editorial opinion on national and foreign affairs will be incorporated in this column instead of in the more formal editorial form. Depending on the space, the column will range from short comments on the day's news to serious expressions of the columnist's opinions of current problems...