Word: broun
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Reader Fletcher's strong Grotonian words fail to abash TIME, which simply quoted the "hideous article" of Columnist Hey wood Broun...
...troops for the advance were chiefly five columns of foreign Leftists, forming the spearhead of Barcelona's drive, under command of up-&-coming General Vicente Rojo. Soon wounded in the back by a bomb fragment was James Lardner, son of late Funnywriter Ring. In Manhattan, portly Leftpundit Heywood Broun announced that Ring Lardner was the only genius he ever met, rejoiced that the wounding of Son James, who writes, may force him to return to the U. S., thus providing the cause of Leftist Spain with another martyr...
...Groton School became the subject of a difference between two New York columnists. In this corner, Gargantuan, dandy Lucius Beebe, who amiably considers Groton U. S. Educational Institution No. 1 because it stands at the top of the private school social scale. In that corner, Gargantuan, dowdy Heywood Broun, whose funny-bone never tingles pleasantly over reactionary boarding schools...
Columnist Broun, fonder of Socialists than of socialites, at once cracked wise & down on Beebe, Peabody, and Groton, in his column It Seems to Me in the New York World-Telegram: "It may be held that Dr. Peabody was at fault in merely stopping the debate and not correcting the conditions in the school which made such an attitude possible. In all fairness to the reputation of the educator it should be pointed out that he has to handle a pretty solid phalanx of problem children.* The home influence is very bad in the case of many Groton boys...
...American Newspaper Guild has known but one President: Scripps-Howard's mussy, curly-headed Columnist Heywood Broun. Hunched over a table like a rising half moon, Chairman Broun always sits when he presides over Guild conventions. After five conventions, Sitting Broun remains a good-natured, efficient chairman. Last week he was reelected by affectionate acclamation, but with little affection Executive Vice-President Jonathan Eddy was re-elected after two ballots...