Word: colyumist
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...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...
That was more than the Miami Herald could stomach. The offending paragraphs were deleted before the Herald printed the colyum. From the next day's offering the Herald lopped off seven paragraphs dealing with California and paradise. On the following day Colyumist Brisbane told how economically one can live in California. Miami readers were not to suffer that. The Herald tossed the whole col-yum aside, dug up and printed instead some two-weeks-old Brisbanalities about naval armaments, the death of Santos-Dumont, etc., etc. Fortnight ago Westbrook Pegler, eloquent sports colyumist of the Chicago Tribune...
...Colyumist Brisbane owns rich property around Columbus Circle...
...Green's Reception. When influenza caused the barracks to be quarantined, Gummo and Harpo enlisted. Groucho and Chico joined organizations for entertaining soldiers. Harpo reached France with the 7th Regiment. He worked as a reporter for the Stars & Stripes, like Editor Harold Ross of the New Yorker, Colyumist Franklin Pierce ("F. P. A.") Adams and Alexander Woollcott. With them he helped form the famed Thanatopsis Club, for poker...
Even the dignified pretense that the representatives of His Majesty's Government are living in Ottawa on expense accounts ranging from $2.50 per day for a full delegate down to $1 for a secretary was gayly exploded by Montreal Gossip Colyumist Margaret Currie. "What a thing it is to be a statesman!" wrote she. "A little bird told me that the Premier was host to all the delegates, not only for their accommodation and meals, but for the special train itself which bore them from Quebec to Ottawa. Perhaps this is the first time Canada has ever had a Prime...