Word: columns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Daily News when alert Col. William Franklin ("Frank") Knox took charge last summer (TIME, Aug. 24). Soon the Tribune found it necessary to brighten up its social page. Last week, accompanied by fanfare which included a full-page advertisement and a half-page announcement in the society columns, Hearst's evening American appeared with the chattiest column of them all. Excerpts...
...What interested American readers most, however, was not the column but the fact that its conductor was a young woman who knew whereof she wrote-Mrs. William Mitchell Blair, 31, smart & sociable, whose husband is related to the formidable Chicago clans of McCormicks, Mitchells and Blairs...
...Institute of International Affairs at Bucharest. "His name is Mr. Chester D. Pugsley," said Professor Jorga, "and he lives in the city of Peekskill in the State of New York. I have been happy to accept on behalf of the Royal Government this magnificent offer." Diligently down a column of Who's Who, Lawyer-Banker Pugsley itemizes his 16 principal charitable bequests which foot up to a total $538.400, plus "40 oil portraits to institutions...
...Vagabond from the shelter of the Subway Pagoda watched the swirling crowds in their mad career after excitement. Life, he mused, as a Freshman draped a fraternal arm about his shoulders, is a strange thing. Dexterously the Vagabond transferred the affections of the nebulous romantic to a nearby column and went on thinking about life...
...still a glorification of the Animal Kingdom. From, the opening act ("FIVE HERDS OF GIANT AND BABY JUNGLE ACTORS PERFORMING SIMULTANEOUSLY IN FIVE RINGS. AFTER THEIR AMAZING ACTS THESE HUGE BEASTS, AUGMENTED BY YET OTHERS, WILL BE MASSED IN FORMIDABLE FORMATION, PRESENTING THE MOST IMPOSING ELEPHANTINE COLUMN OF ALL TIME") to the closing one ("HUGO ZACCHINI, THE HUMAN PROJECTILE, A LIVING PERSON SHOT HEADLONG THROUGH SPACE WITH TERRIFIC FORCE FROM THE MOUTH OF A MONSTER CANNON") 1932-5 biggest tent show is an exhibition of the glamour, fantasy, strength, skill, ingenuity and courage of animals high...