Word: columns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Says William L. ("Jolly Pumpernickle Bill") Steinke, leading authority on spelling, translation and pronunciation of Pennsylvania Dutch and originator of the column Bill now edits...
...great cousin, Theodore. Last week the President's son Elliott was starting a Fort Worth radio chain, his son Franklin Jr. and Du Pont daughter-in-law were honeymooning in Europe, his son James was making an Indianapolis speech that was covered by Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt in her column "My Day," and the President's 82-year-old mother was sightseeing in Italy. None of their routine activities, however, constituted the President's major family distraction of the week. This took place at Cannes, France, whose Mayor Pierre Nouveau almost created an international incident by his description...
Westbrook Pegler's ''Fair Enough" column appeared last week in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer with the following blast: "Genius has followed the election returns in the case of Mrs. John Boettiger, the President's daughter, for she also went journalistic after Mr. Roosevelt's first election and, within the last year, above all the thousands of professional newspaper women in the United States who need jobs by which to live, has been singled out as peculiarly qualified for sub-editorship on one of Mr. Hearst's newspapers." Mrs. Boettiger is women's editor...
...most of ten years the best of many columns in Manhattan, on Manhattan, for Manhattan has been "Notes and Comment," which leads off The New Yorker's "Talk of the Town" section. Last week's column, best & saddest of them all, was devoted to Manhattan's most popular mythical character, the top-hatted dandy (portrayed, in the full pride of youth, by Artist Rea Irvin) who on the first cover of The New Yorker, and every year on its anniversary issue in mid-February stares through his monocle at a butterfly...
When a London gossip writer mentioned Columnist Dorothy Thompson for the Presidency, newshawks scurried to get her reaction. "Ridiculous," she pooh-poohed. "I'm very much for it," declared Husband Sinclair Lewis, "then I can syndicate a column called...