Word: columnized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Across the field we saw a long column of men running towards us. Root said, "Get the guns trained on them." I looked at them through glasses. They were Chinese soldiers, and an officer...
...Boston area for days had been thick with rumors of trouble: that a white boy had been killed by Negroes; that three Negro girls had beaten up a white school girl ; that a Negro had stolen a white boy's girl. As the column of "delegates" approached the Negroes, Cambridge police arrived. They seemed loth to intervene...
When a bystander asked "What's going on?" a policeman replied, "These kids are going to beat up those niggers." But the advancing column hesitated, began to fall back. Soon patrol cars of the metropolitan district police arrived and helped break the mob into smaller groups. A few "dele gates" fired a salvo of rocks, breaking a police car window. Small squads raced through back alleys hunting for Negroes. By morning, Cambridge had subsided into uneasy peace...
Some of the people Ernie Pyle grew up with dropped in there last week to talk about Ernie. They found the News's 31-year-old Owner-Editor Luther B. Mathes telling how he had suggested a Pyle column for weeklies, how his idea has finally been taken up. The column was costing Editor Mathes about $1 a week, but he could reckon it a dollar well spent as he listened to his neighbors...
...father, William Clyde Pyle. He is 76, partly deaf, on the mend after a hip-fracturing fall. With him lives Ernie's 78-year-old Aunt Mary Bales, sister of his late mother. Editor Mathes looked in last week to see what they thought of the weekly column. Father Pyle's verdict: "Fine, I reckon the visitors can clip it." He referred to the fact that motorists are always dropping in to say how they enjoy Ernest (he is never "Ernie" at his old home). Father Pyle keeps a scrapbook of the daily columns from the Danville...