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personal column

British

noun

a newspaper column containing personal messages, advertisements by charities, requests for friendship, holiday companions, etc

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In a highly personal column, The Sun newspaper's showbiz editor Dan Wootton recounted how he was bullied at school by people using the same language as Maynard had tweeted.

From BBC • Nov. 22, 2017

It all started on 4 May 1956 with a small advert in the personal column of the Times.

From BBC • May 3, 2016

One story has it that William Randolph Hearst Jr. has been holding up negotiations by demanding that the new paper run his personal column.

From Time Magazine Archive

This ad is one of those which have made the whimsical "personal" column of the Saturday Review of Literature the best-read section of that otherwise sedately bookish weekly.

From Time Magazine Archive

“This note in the personal column ought to interest you. ‘

From "On the Far Side of the Mountain" by Jean Craighead George

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