Word: columns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Tikytt (or Tikyll), Prior of the Augustinian Monastery of Wyrkesopp, England, was engaged, about the year 1310, in limning a psalter. He finished 90 pages, with elaborate titles in gold and colors for each psalm, a miniature for each page, and a small painting at the bottom of each column of text. Then after sketching in his decorations for 23 more pages, this skillful illuminator died under circumstances unknown to history...
Because his full name would not fit in a column of the Lafayette (Ind.) Journal when he was given his first by-line nearly 15 years ago, Stephen Jerome Hannagan became "Steve" Hannagan. Today "Steve" Hannagan is a name known in practically every important newspaper office in the U. S. and most of the better barrooms...
When Kenneth Collins, one year out of college, quit teaching freshman composition at the University of Idaho he almost entered the Episcopal ministry but decided to do graduate work at Harvard instead. Passing through Manhattan he saw a five-inch, two-column Macy advertisement: "EXECUTIVE POSITION OPEN IN OUR ADVERTISING DEPARTMENT. We require a man of high calibre to supervise and direct a staff of copywriters in the preparation of advertising. This is a key position which offers a creative opportunity and carries with it much responsibility...
Times and Herald Tribune each gave the execution and obituary a column and a half on inside pages. Hearst's morning paper, the American, limited its report to less than two columns. One of its reporters in the death chamber was Rev. Charles Francis Potter, publicity-craving founder of the first Humanist Society in New York. His story began: "I killed a boy a few minutes ago and I don't feel very good about...
...Vagabond turned hopefully toward the third, hitherto silent, member of the party. "I never have read the column." The Vagabond pushed away his plate of humble pie and departed, the world in ashes. The cruel words rang loudly in his old ears and when he thought thereon he wept...