Word: columnist
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Since everyone is taking a crack at Coolidge, columnist cum laude, why not get real low-down and quote from Voltaire in his Candide...
Howsoever, to get down to cases, a thing this columnist by his very nature, finds hard to do, there are a few rare personalities left from the old school of English teachers. The one he has most in mind today is, perhaps, the lion of them all. Individual in appearance, delivery and thought, rich in scholarship and anecdote. Professor Kittredge, one of the remaining "Great Men", is possibly the only reason every freshman should be forced to concentrate in English, like it or no. There is a legend to Kittredge, made up of countless stories, told...
...weekly colyumist on Zit's Theatrical Newspaper is its managing editor, Paul Sweinhart. Last week he wrote: "I've just heard . . . that the crack was made the other morning in a night club that a certain daily newspaper columnist will be bumped off within six months." Broadway's newswise readers associated this warning not with Colyumists Coolidge, Brisbane, Guinan, Broun or a dozen others, but instinctively thought first of Gossip-Colyumist Walter Winchell (TIME, June 17, 1929). New York has heard before the rumor of threats against his life. Not loath to dramatize his position, Colyumist Winchell...
...there you have it. History is being made at this instant. Pointblank, this columnist is thinking seriously of turning professional. In his morning mail was a communication from Cook Tours, Inc., urging him, in lieu of his present unlucrative occupation, to join...
...there's Smith. Turn to your left at Ware, proceed with decorum (the latter is a necessity) and swing proudly into the home of Cal Coolidge, Columnist. Once there, practice saying "Oh, really", and you have the pith of any conversation likely to intrude on the campusian walks of America's Greatest Women's College. So saying, the Vagabond will leave the shades of Sophia Smith with a parting admonition to the effect that the entertainment consists mostly of absorbing the cleverest, catchiest, and downright distinctive set of rules governing any herd of femmes congregated anywhere. To make the game...