Word: columnist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...please the students, he doesn't write particularly to get people to go to lectures, and quite frankly that familiar sentence "today the Vagabond will go to hear--" is merely a terminal convenience, a tradition much like the King opening parliament. Nor is the Vagabond a cheap penny columnist, no adviser to the love lorn he! He writes for the same reason the man thumbed his nose at the Queen, it seems to be the best thing to do at the time. It is a great satisfaction to him to dash off the manifold things that come to mind...
...There's Hoover, frinstance. . . . He's a columnist at heart. . . . During his talk to the Legion in Detroit he never credited Garfield with a nod or bow . . . and Mr. H. practically used word for word of Garfield's plea to the G. A. R. Vets of 50 years ago-when he discussed pensions...
...COLUMNIST MURDER-Lawrence Saunders-Farrar & Rinehart ($2).- No one has yet shot smooth-haired, Gossip-Monger Walter Winchell (New York Mirror's "On Broadway") though Zit's Theatrical Newspaper hinted more than six months ago he would be killed within six months (TIME, Nov. 3). Author "Lawrence Saunders" (Burton Davis) calls the victim of his murder-story "Tommy Twitchell," has him shot in a theatre telephone booth during a first-night performance, proceeds with his unraveling tale in a style that owes much to his hero's prototype. As a murder story The Columnist Murder...
That venerable columnist, Arthur Brisbane, is alleged to have accused Funnyman Will Rogers with being educated at Eton and Oxford. I am a longtime admirer of Rogers and have always suspected that he was not as "dumb" as he attempted to act. Is Brisbane's accusation true...
...time. The Vagabond, looking at it fairly and squarely, without personal bias, as it were, is inclined to believe their differences were caused by incompatible vocations. For, whereas, the able Mr. Huey guesses at the outcome of sportive events and never goes to see them actually performed, this good columnist never attempts to outline in detail exactly what will take place, but rather hints at the subject matter and always attends. And furthermore he never permits himself any general observations on athletic combats...