Word: colyumist
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...language less elegant, less thunderous but no less clear than Joseph Pul-itzer's writers used to use: ''Soon the idea may get across to Tammany. Soon Tammany may wake up and realize that even a political machine can get gummed up with too much politics." World-Telegram Colyumist Heywood Broun began organizing a mass meeting "in answer to the average citizen's question: 'What can I do?'" The Daily News thought that the municipality's only salvation lay in draft- ing Alfred Emanuel Smith for Mayor...
...deplorable condition!" grumbled Manhattan Colyumist Heywood Broun...
Discussing the colored "host-coats" which Manhattan tailors currently recommend for evening wear by gentlemen who are receiving guests at home, Hearst-Colyumist Arthur Brisbane wrote: "They allow the eaters and drinkers at the party to pick out the man who is paying the bills and prevent mistaking him for the butler. The latter advantage is not important, because the butler may usually be recognized by his expression of concentrated intelligence, and is nearly always sober." Mr. Brisbane then drew a line under this sally and began anew: "Herbert [Bayard] Swope had this 'host-coat' idea long...
...Colyumist Franklin Pierce Adams (F. P. A.) of the New York Herald Tribune, good friend of Mr. Swope, retorted: "It is in his guests that Mr. Swope makes his mistakes...
...chirrup: "World-Telegram." In the combined paper were Will Johnstone's and Dennis Wortman's (Metropolitan Movies) cartoons. It was announced that Cartoonist Rollin Kirby and Book Critic Harry Hansen would be retained too. Editorial Writer Walter Lippmann confirmed reports that he was going to retire. Colyumist F. P. A., who might have led a heavy following to the World-Telegram, instead "went home" to the Herald Tribune...