Word: colyums
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Contributor Funk soon contributed again. His next piece to get into print was "A Defy" to all the poets from whom he was frank to steal phrases because they "steal more than a plenty from me." In anyone but a colyum conductor that last line might have aroused curiosity. But Colyumist Phillips, discreetly dense, let things go along and two weeks later published the following, again signed WILFRED J. FUNK: WALL STREET WAILS...
...this in Ralph Wilk's colyum, "A Little from 'Lots' " in the Film Daily: "Our Passing Show: Adolphe Menjou carrying a copy of TIME...
...today's CRIMSON appears the first offering of The Crime. It is a cold world in which to launch an infant "colyum". The young thing must fend for itself from the first moment of its inky existence. Some critics will look for hidden wisdom between its lines; some will always demand a lofty humor which mellows inwardly but never cracks a smile; and some will even expect the silly young thing to talk sense. But these hypercritical fellows do not count...
...Funny Colyum" in The New York World...
...conducts a "colyum"--in this case The Bowling Green in the New York Evening Post--must, we feel, have economical pangs at seeing so much copy go into the maw of the presses every day with so little return; so many quickly-jotted ideas that might really be turned into something lasting; so many little quips and literary furbelows that would be worthy to set off a finer dress. It is small wonder that sometimes these pieces are gathered together and swept into a volume, where they may play a sort of public journal to the authors, and buoy...