Winchell

American  

[win-chuhl] / ˈwɪn tʃəl /

noun

1. Walter, 1897–1972, U.S. newspaper columnist and radio and television broadcaster.

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Example Sentences

Walter Winchell, the feared and powerful gossip columnist, raged against her.

From Los Angeles Times

Colorful characters abound: the master builder Robert Moses, the imperious Francis Cardinal Spellman, the labor leader “Red Mike” Quill, the civil-rights activist Bayard Rustin, the budding black politician Adam Clayton Powell Jr., the columnist Walter Winchell, the New York Post owner Dorothy Schiff, the seedy leader of American Nazis Fritz Kuhn, Frank Sinatra and many, many others.

From The Wall Street Journal

Colbert, 61dob: 5/13/1964, who has been at “The Late Show” for 10 years, is the most mature, professorial and philosophical — gentle, a gentleman, and at times a mock-gentleman, addressing his audience as “My fellow Americans,” or echoing Walter Winchell, “Mr. and Mrs. America and All the Ships at Sea,” or as “Ladies and Gentlemen.”

From Los Angeles Times

While rumors have swirled online about immigration officials’ presence at bus stops and along rail lines for weeks, the most visible example happened early Wednesday when a group of masked immigration officers approached two men sitting at a bus stop outside the Winchell’s Donut House on Los Robles Avenue in Pasadena.

From Los Angeles Times

So it can’t be a coincidence that, on Wednesday, agents arrested several men at a bus stop near a Winchell’s Donut House in Pasadena.

From Los Angeles Times