Word: columns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...action seems to center about the infant Peter and since the management has requested that the child's secret be kept from an eager public it is rather difficult to say much about the plot. Finessing the harrowing details this column will consider its duty done when it announces that the story is long in telling, poorly paced and so skillfully constructed that the climax comes at the end of the first act, thus making the ensuing two acts dependent upon the customary dramatic devices such as inexplicable flashes of lightning and a series of unexpected entrances. The most interesting...
...Chicago Board of Health. As the Board's publicity-loving chief during the regimes of Mayors William Hale ("Big Bill") Thompson and William Dever, Dr. Bundesen had a ringside seat at a memorable political show. When Mayor Thompson ousted him in 1927, he started a medical column in the Daily News, got on the Sanitary District's pay roll and four years later had back his old job as Health Board president. By adroit soft-pedaling Dr. Bundesen weathered the scandal surrounding Chicago's amebic dysentery epidemic during the 1933 Century of Progress...
Then the Italian commander sent a motorized column to fan out westward toward the British Sudan border and Lake Tana on his right. For them the going was fairly easy. No fool politically, Marshal Badoglio gave command of this column to the Farley of Fascismo, ebullient Achille Starace, secretary general of the Fascist...
...Soldiers," cried Italy's panther-man, "this is the most risky, most difficult and most important venture of the campaign. Don't waste a shot. We are carrying all the ammunition we are going to have on this trip. This column must be like an electric live wire. Death to the touch! Truck drivers must learn to keep to the right of the road under pain of severe penalties. . . . ''Britain is a rich country, Italy is a poor country, but the people of poor countries have hard muscles. The only way to explain the action...
Last Roman Catholic King of England was James II (1685-88). By oaths of accession, by laws of the realm, by popular tradition, no British Sovereign since has been permitted to become a Catholic. Yet last week in the New York Catholic News column of Rev. James Martin Gillis, famed Paulist preacher, appeared the following...