Word: columnist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...seemed to me unsatisfactory that a man of long life should have his existence summed up to some extent as 'the father of the newspaper columnist...
...sent for German Ambassador Leopold von Hoesch, talked to him like an uncle, sent him packing to Berlin to repeat B'rer Briand's remarks to German Foreign Minister Julius Curtius. White-chinned ex-President Raymond Poincaré, who, like ex-President Coolidge, is temporarily a newspaper columnist, wrote with spluttering...
...Frank (two daughters have died), but in the summer the Norrises' 200-acre ranch at Saratoga, Calif, houses a cheerful bedlam of children?wards, cousins, children from miles around needful of home life and a good time. Among other fauna at the Norris ranch are children of Poet Columnist William Rose Benet whose first wife was Mrs. Norris's sister, the late Teresa Frances Thompson...
...Diephuis writes. "The matter may be somewhat out of your line as a columnist, but isn't it remarkable how little the sense of news value? The item appears on Page 5 of a twenty-six page newspaper, under 'Miscellaneous News Items.' The man's name is not even mentioned. Wouldn't an American paper give this item a front-page position with a headline like this, 'Cow Shoots Man?" --St. Louis Globe-Democrat...
...chagrin is due to the fact that he almost lost his reputation, and despite the inroads of ultra-modernism, he is still old-fashioned enough in matters of this kind to wish to retain that intangible quality. The manner is thus: for the better part of a year this columnist has had his eye on a certain date, which falls on this coming Saturday. He had planned to set it aside as Official Vagabond Day: insignia and epaulets were to be worn, and the occasion was to be formal. However, it seems that there were nefarious plans afoot to hoodwink...