Word: columns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...response was so immediate in the case of Mrs. Schroeder's contribution or offer to contribute to Noel Burnet's koala farm that it is possible your Letters column might awaken a similar response on behalf of America's greatest and, at one time, most beloved upland game bird. In fact, Rex. king of grouse, truly depicts what would be so lacking in our woodlands, if allowed to go the way of the passenger pigeon and heath...
...interest to students of archeology and ancient history are several paintings of reliefs from Xerxe's 100 column hall and other scenes on the Persepolis terrace done in the style of Joseph Lindon Smith. Some pencil sketches done in Iran and snow scenes in the Himalayas complete the collection...
...admit in this policy a brief tempest raged last fortnight in the Great Atlantic & Pacific teapot. Reproduced on the January cover of the advertising magazine Tide was a yellow handbill circulated last month by A & P stores in New Orleans. Headlined "Compare! Save 29%!" the handbill listed in parallel columns 15 nationally known food products against 15 equivalents manufactured by A & P, all sold in A & P stores. The prices in the outside brand column added up to $2.40; those in the A & P products column to $1.70. Though A & P handbills regularly make a tacit comparison between national brands...
...time he wrote a column, Trifles & Baubles. His one & only novel, The Tragic Hunt, appeared in 33 installments, was so complicated that most readers lost the thread of the plot. He signed his stuff by many a pseudonym, usually "Antosha Chekhonte." By the time he had taken his medical degree he had become a professional journalist. Said he: "Literature is my mistress and medicine my lawful wife." As a doctor, he knew he was threatened with tuberculosis but would never admit it, refused to be examined. Potent Alexey Suvorin, editor of St. Petersburg's Novoe Vremya, biggest Russian daily...
...this and the following reviews of popular records the column will be divided into reviews of dance and jazz pieces. Each disc will be judged according to the standards of its group. The system of marking is: *poor, **fair, ***good, ****excellent...