Word: columnized
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Madame Chiang column appeared, Ruth Montgomery met Mrs. Truman at a cocktail party. She was re-introduced to the First Lady by a friend who said, "Of course you read Ruth's column." "Oh, yes. I certainly did," said Mrs. Truman-and smiled sweetly...
Eleanor Roosevelt's future suddenly became a matter of speculation. Vassar College listed her name among some 200 submitted as possible successors next year to retiring President Henry Noble MacCracken. New York State's Republican Committee noted that her column had been "concerning itself more and more" with state and city politics, wondered aloud if she was going to run for Senator. From Hyde Park came a reminder that she had often sworn she would never run for public office. On the Vassar matter she made no comment...
...Times printed the 55½-column full text of the Versailles Treaty, Einstein's own (and almost universally incomprehensible) explanation of his Field Theories, old and new, in four columns...
...heads; 2) the only predominantly long-headed groups in the world today are savages in Australia and Africa; 3) civilized men of all races are becoming more & more roundheaded, probably as a result of rising from all fours to an erect posture, which changes the form of the spinal column and of the skull base. The trend toward a broader and shorter skull, says Dr. Weidenreich, has not reduced modern man's brain; it remains about the same size as that of the Neanderthal man. According to the latest theory, brainpower depends not on shape or size...
Eleanor Roosevelt brought her column-readers up to date on Fala. He was about to move to her Manhattan apartment, where she feared he might feel a little cramped at first. Traveling was a problem; he was used to romping about the President's private car, would now have to travel in a dog satchel. The Manhattan salesman who sold her the satchel had some advice: Fala would not be so alarmed if she backed him into it. "I really think it would be simpler if I sat with him in the baggage car," wrote Mrs. Roosevelt...