Word: colyumists
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Button & Co., famed Manhattan publishers, was sued last week for $200,000 libel by the Book of the Month Club. Publisher Macrae has often charged that the club judges are influenced in their choice of books by the club business managers. The club judges: Editor-Critic Henry Seidel Canby, Colyumist Heywood Broun, Authoress Dorothy Canfield, Author Christopher Morley, Publicist William Allen White...
Information on the investments of one such market follower was last week disclosed through the daily column in the New York Telegram by Colyumist Heywood Broun. The investor is, of course, Mr. Broun himself. Managing a column which is about equally divided between the controversial and the autobiographical, Mr. Broun, in one of his revelatory moments, mentioned the nature and extent of his corporate holdings. Purposely naive (as when he remarked that should his General Realty stock prove him to be his own landlord he would certainly do something about a defective window) Mr. Broun's commitments indicated...
Perm Railroad. For, in the first place, Colyumist Broun has acquired 25 shares of Penn Railroad. Mr. Broun maintains that his Pennsylvania stock has gone off two points since his purchase. Inasmuch as it last week closed at 78 and its high for the year has been 83 (low 72) the inference would be that the purchase was made somewhat by the outsider's proverbial system of buying at the high and selling at the low. Yet, with railroads showing best earnings in years, Mr. Broun might well be told to hang on to his railroad stock...
...Manhattan, Colyumist Elsie McCormick of the World told last week of a practicable use for live eels, also for umbrella covers. Procedure: place the eel in the umbrella cover, attach the umbrella cover to the rear of a Mephistopheles costume, go to a fancy dress ball...
...Hudson by German cooking and the fact that Hoboken's beer has scarcely heard of the 18th amendment. It was on one of these trips that Cleon Throckmorton, scenic designer, discovered the old Rialto Theatre, buried under 70 years of dust. He interested Christopher Morley, novelist-playwright-essayist-colyumist ; Harry Wagstaff Gribble, playwright; and Conrad Milliken, lawyer-poet. Eventually the four leased it and dusted...