Word: columnized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Over the Caspian we flew wavetop high. At one point we were within 50 miles of the Russian frontier. We ran across troops on the move at the confluence of the Send and Shah Rivers. A long column of horse-drawn artillery and trucks, two miles long", stretched along both sides of the road in a hairpin bend. Several hundred troops basked in the sun alongside the vehicles. There must have been hundreds more within the trucks. Just outside Kazvin we saw a column of infantry marching up the road. Behind them came carts, piled high with desks, tables, telephone...
...Government ("I hope we can establish the friendliest relations"). That done, he charged Russia with some unfriendly business. Russia, he said, was making Canada "a base for securing information of great importance to the United States and Great Britain." Inside the Dominion, he said, Russian infiltration was approaching fifth column proportions. He said: "It was as serious a situation as had arisen in Canada at any time...
Fiorello LaGuardia, old-scold columnist for 1) PM, 2) Sachs Quality Stores, tired of having his Sachs column rejected by Manhattan papers,* wrote something different, prayed in print: "I hope no fault will be found with it." Bulk of his column: Little Bopeep, Sing a Song of Sixpence, three other nursery favorites. That got printed-except by the Daily News...
Ezra Pound got into a Random House poetry anthology that had excluded him as a traitor, but Publisher Bennett Cerf took pains to be understood. He had finally decided, said Cerf in his Saturday Review of Literature column, to reinstate the poet, chiefly because: "Once begun, where can you draw the line in this sort of thing? . . . This does not mean," Cerf hastened to say, "that my abhorrence for Ezra Pound the man has abated one iota. . . ." To make assurance doubly, sure, Cerf would run a footnote characterizing Pound as "a contemptible betrayer of his country...
Heads Up. Horizon's critics berate the magazine for being too cultish, for not being cultish enough. Recently, in his column of comment, Connolly taunted complainers who said that his magazine is over their heads...