Word: colyums
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...verses from a parody published in The Pilot House, a colyum of the Virginian Pilot and the Norfolk Landmark...
...Label bass ale), for the past ten years a Manhattan stockbroker (Reynolds, Fish & Co.), British-born father of Heywood Campbell Broun, colyumist for the New York Telegram and Socialist candidate for Congress; after a paralytic stroke, at St. Luke's Hospital, Manhattan. After some reflection Colyumist Broun wrote a colyum about his father. Excerpts...
...Naval Institute's Proceedings published last fortnight, Lieut. Thomas G. W. Settle wrote what many an airman already knew: "There is only one bona fide airship engine in the world today- [Germany's] Maybach." Last week in his syndicated newspaper colyum, Calvin Coolidge blunderingly deplored: "A naval office reports that the best engine is made abroad," missing the lighter-than-air distinction. Navy officials protested. Had not the Navy been largely responsible for the development of the air-cooled motor for planes...
Jesse Louis Lasky, cineman, one of Colyumist Bob Davis' friends who have been writing his colyum in the New York Sim while he recuperates from an accident (TIME, June 16), revealed that he once wrote and sold to Davis two short stories, which Davis published in Munsey's Magazine which he then edited (1904-1920). Further revelation: the author of "My Brudda Sylvest," oldtime Italian dialect song, was Jesse Louis Lasky...
Last month Editor Hugh Alwyn Inness Brown of Taxi Weekly, Manhattan, returned from a business trip, was greeted by a process server, shown a copy of the paper published in his absence. Pop-eyed with amazement Editor Brown flipped pages to "The Coffee Pot," a colyum conducted by Hackman Otto Lewis. This is what he read: "The MEANEST RIDER! He rides from Jackson Heights to 52d street & 6th Ave. Just an old grouch as mean as he looks and he looks terrible. Grumbles from the minute he enters your cab until he pays you the exact fare...