Word: columnized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...manner unique in criminal history," said the officers who examined him, "he had in weeks of painstaking work built a time explosive charge into a column of the Bürgerbräu cellar whose clockwork mechanism was set at six days, or 144 hours...
About eight weeks ago, this column reported that Artic Shaw was going to be forced out of the music business. Last week Shaw apparently refuted this story by giving out a statement to the effect that he was sick and tired of the band business and was going to leave it of his own accord; that his income for the next year would have been around a quarter of a million dollars, but that he couldn't be bothered with such material things; and that therefore he was leaving for good. At this moment Shaw is somewhere in Texas with...
Once a conservative who believed that democracy had been a dismal failure, Editor Agar swung leftward with Roosevelt. His recent books are pious, eloquent, Democratic; his syndicated column, Time and Tide, has a resolutely New Deal aura. He takes his seat in Marse Henry's vacant office next January, at the close of a current lecture tour...
...Connelly, Broun, Woollcott, Benchley, Dorothy Parker, F.P.A. & Co. at lunch, and to hear their laughter, though not what gave rise to it. The male members enhanced their glamor by forming the Thanatopsis Literary and Inside Straight Club, whose legendary sessions, devoted to poker and wisecracks, F.P.A. reported in his column...
Then the family moved to Paterson, N. J. Having no idea where Paterson was, Kaufman was delighted to find it within commuting distance of New York. He was soon commuting regularly-to work in a hatband factory. He also began contributing to F.P.A.'s column in the old Evening Mail. Eventually F.P.A. invited him to lunch, disillusioned him as to what writers looked like, but found a job for him on the Washington Times. When he lost that, Adams got him another on the New York Tribune. Later he became a dramatic reporter on the Tribune, when Heywood Broun...