Word: colyumist
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...shows how quick-witted he is by throwing the racketeer's corpse off the roof. When police find it on the sidewalk, they do not guess about the murder. He is rewarded not by the actress's devotion but by a mean trick such as real colyumists have given the public to understand is particularly likely to occur in Manhattan's theatre district. The actress marries someone else and the colyumist is forced to fall back upon the affections of a platonic friend who laughs at all his wisecracks (Ann Dvorak...
...must be hard for her to do so, for the cracks are not very funny. "Hungry as a toothless timberwolf" is a simile he tosses off while talking about love. Adapted from a novel by Brooklyn Colyumist Rian James, Love is a Racket is brightly acted, particularly by Lee Tracy as a reporter who is always somewhat agitated. It contains a few genuine shots of its metier, including one of Author James's favorite chophouse...
...Colyumist Sidney Skolsky of the New York Daily News revealed that four streetcars in Scranton, Pa. are painted dark ivory with blue trim, bear the legend "Designed by Florenz Ziegfeld." Officials of the railway explained that the innovation grew out of a magazine article by Showman Ziegfeld criticizing the drabness of streetcars. Later, at a trolleyman's conference in Manhattan Showman Ziegfeld was invited to submit color schemes, of which the ivory & blue was accepted...
...United States" as "an artist who paints with words," paints the following unforgettable scene: "From the western slopes of the Appalachian chain, the water drains to the Mississippi, and the great plains begin." Authoress Faith Baldwin, introduced by Author Achmed Abdullah, writes of "Love and Romance," estimates that Colyumist Dorothy Dix is the best public advisor on such tender themes. Contributor Edward L. Bernays, writing the blurb for "Women" innocently observes: "Forty-nine percent of the population are of the feminine sex. And yet women still seem to be the perennial novelty that they have always been...
...Colyumist Jay Elmer House of the New York Evening Post last week received from a correspondent in Trieste, a clipping from the Ultime Notizie. A headline translated, read: "New Phase in the Lindbergh Drama: Curtis Is About to Be Arrested." From beneath the headline stared a photograph of Vice President Charles Curtis...