Word: columnized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Regarding your July 26 issue: Would you kindly have that Indian on p. 12 lower his sights a bit, down about to "The Insect World" in your Miscellany column...
...paid Olaf, predecessor of Sweyn, ?10,000 to give up his first raid. After that Aethelred paid consecutively ?16,000, ?24,000, and finally ?36,000, but when the price of peace reached ?48,000 Aethelred collected a great fleet, ordered a general massacre of the Danish fifth column, and decreed a great levy of troops-his idea of selective service. Politics and traitorous quarrels disrupted the navy and the army; so that Sweyn overran England while Aethelred fled. The policy of opportunism had paved the path for William the Conqueror...
...didn't even have a Letters column in our earliest issues (it was launched in December 1924). The first Current Affairs Test came in 1935—appeared twice a year after that until this January, when the government's paper cut order forced us to leave it out. We started Radio in 1938, Army & Navy...
...during the Twenties we listed important arrivals and leave-takings in a column called Coming & Going-for several years we had a department devoted to news of Animals-and there was a month in 1927 when we gave Fashions in clothes and kitchenware and conduct a department all their...
...Into the great Piazza del Duomo they surged, defying the machine guns mounted in the shadow of the famed Cathedral. They hoisted anti-war placards. They stormed the Cellari jail and freed a batch of political prisoners. The soldiers of the Crown refused to fire on them. Once a column of the people, remembering the exiled maestro who would not play Giovinezza, rushed down the arcaded streets to La Scala and before the famed Opera House chanted: "Where is Toscanini? He must inaugurate the new Scala season." Thousands went on strike in the factories of Pirelli (tires), Bianchi (trucks), Breda...