Word: column
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Battle Stories (132,000) and Screen Secrets (140,000) came in 1926. The latter began as Paris & Hollywood, consisting of pictures of females. Next month it is to become Screen Play, a "high class fan magazine." Also in 1926 Whiz Bang's poetry column budded off as Smokehouse Monthly, ". . . dedicated to all glorious guzzlers, woozy warblers, rakes, scallawags, and other good people who still be lieve in the joy of living." The "smoke house" in the masthead is drawn to re semble a backhouse. Strangely out of keeping with its unmannered fellows is Amateur Golfer & Sportsmen, a smart, tasteful...
...have been a reader of TIME for over two years now and enjoy it immensely, but there is one thing I do not like about it. This is your Miscellany column. It seems to me that every item in it tells of some gruesome way of somebody being killed or committing suicide. Why don't you print something else in this column...
Early next morning the rebel garrison marched dumbly through the gates of Jaca, straight down the main road to Huesca. At the head of the column, their arms trussed behind them, were two hostages, General Las Heras, Military Governor of Huesca, and his aide...
...smack into a Federal force. A battery of artillery held the road, their six guns leveled. Rebel scouts ran forward, shouting Viva la Republica, believing these troops were friendly too. An officer's arm dropped. A roaring point-blank artillery broadside tore great holes in the screaming, terrified column. Wrote an eyewitness reporter...
...scores of matches played last Saturday in inter-club competitions occupied more than a column of fine type in The Sunday Herald. And that is not the whole story. Many men are at it whose performances do not call for the attention of sporting editors. The season begins in earnest after the Harvard-Yale football game, and from then until warmer weather the number of men who use the courts every day is high in the hundreds...