Sentence examples for first columnist from inspiring English sources

The New Yorker in 2002 reported: "The first columnist they tried this on was Larry Fields of The Philadelphia Daily News, whose wife fainted when Sinatra kissed her cheek.

William Safire, who has died aged 79 of pancreatic cancer, went from being the public relations man who set up Richard Nixon's "kitchen debate" with Nikita Khrushchev in Moscow, to the first columnist on the New York Times NYTT) chosen for his conservative view, and then a much-loved grouch and language purist.

(His father was one of the first columnists for the paper when it was founded, in 1976, a year after Franco died).

But in 1963, she joined the Observer full-time, where she became one of the first columnists to bridge the divide between women's writing and "what I suppose the blokes would have called serious writing".

For example, almost a decade ago, I was one of the first columnists to declare that camera phones would never catch on, while at the same time predicting a bold and exciting future for red-button interactive television.

State TV regularly branded Nemtsov a fifth columnist.

Some viewed him as a kind of Conservative fifth columnist.

There have been accusations and counter-accusations: who is leaking intelligence, who is a fifth columnist".

But portraying Sanders as some kind of LGBT fifth columnist is a reach.

Now, it seems, to be a Kremlin fifth columnist is a political badge of honour.

He enrages most Jewish Israelis as a kind of fifth columnist who, they reckon, smiles on Arab terror.