Word: colyumist
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...Colyumist Gibbons, 43, younger-looking, bulky, flat-nosed, wears a white linen patch over his left-eye socket. The eye was shot out by a machine gun at Chateau-Thierry. When he broadcasts he rushes into the studio at the last minute, tosses his coat aside, keeps his hat on, sits down at a table with cigaret in hand and rattles off 217 words per minute...
Fortunately, during the Coronation period, Abyssinia is trying to appear as civilized as possible. The Duke of Gloucester would certainly blanch at any penal amputation. Therefore Colonel Julian was allowed to scuttle out of Abyssinia-a man without a country. Wrote one of his white admirers, Colyumist Beverly Smith of Manhattan's Herald Tribune: "Julian [on Sept. i, the day he sailed for Abyssinia] was one of the happiest men I have ever seen. His whole heart was set on the glory of the imperial Abyssinian Coronation . . . when he was to direct the aerial maneuvers from the new imperial...
...weekly colyumist on Zit's Theatrical Newspaper is its managing editor, Paul Sweinhart. Last week he wrote: "I've just heard . . . that the crack was made the other morning in a night club that a certain daily newspaper columnist will be bumped off within six months." Broadway's newswise readers associated this warning not with Colyumists Coolidge, Brisbane, Guinan, Broun or a dozen others, but instinctively thought first of Gossip-Colyumist Walter Winchell (TIME, June 17, 1929). New York has heard before the rumor of threats against his life. Not loath to dramatize his position, Colyumist Winchell...
...Colyumist Winchell has annoyed any one with such peeping chitchat, observers reflected that he may also be feared and hated for what he knows and has not written...
...that roast white meat I ordered an hour ergo?" Congo Waiter-"The missionary ship is an hour late, sir!" Nearly 50,000 copies of the first issue were quickly grabbed up. But not all Negroes heaped praise upon the magazine simply because it is by and for Negroes. Said Colyumist-Critic Theophilus Wells of the Amsterdam News (Harlem): "Probably it will be an interesting magazine when it makes up its mind just what type ... it wants to be. Its first issue is a mongrel affair . . . should have prominent writers among its contributors. . . . The only explanation [of the crude art work...