Word: colyums
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...climate long since ceased to be news. No one knows that better than Arthur Brisbane, able newsman. But on his frequent visits to Publisher Hearst's ranch at San Simeon, and his own alfalfa farm on the Mojave Desert, he cannot resist rhapsodizing in his "Today" colyum over California sunshine, sky, flowers, ocean, mountains...
...rule, Florida newspapers which buy the Brisbane colyum are tolerant, if unenthusiastic, over the California publicity given them to print. But one day last week the Miami Herald found the day's offering particularly offensive. From Los Angeles, where he had been witnessing the Olympic Games, Colyumist Brisbane wrote...
...husband) hired as editor Wilkie Mahoney, one-time ace "gagman" for Publisher Fawcett's Whiz Bang, Smokehouse Monthly and Hooey (TIME, Dec. 29, 1930; Dec. 14, 1931). Also, it was reported, she issued orders to correspondents to put less smut, more gusto into their work. There will be a colyum (corresponding to Captain Billy's "Drippings from the Fawcett") in which she will identify herself as "Happy Divorcee," "Animated Annette," "Happy Hostess," "Torrid Toreador...
Back cracked Reporter Rogers in his syndicated colyum: "H. L. Mencken was backing the Presidential candidacy of Senator France. If he had been elected the American Mercury would have re placed the Congressional Record...
...much lighter vein wrote "Congressman" Westbrook Pegler, whose sport colyum is syndicated through the Tribune: "I do not favor the return of the old saloon. Too many of our citizens owed bills in the old saloons, and if the saloons came back they would be subject to annoyance...