Word: paragrapher
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...convention proper continued. Temporary Chairman Fess read a paragraph lauding Theodore Roosevelt, inadvertently omitted from the "Keynote" speech...
...have not yet, however, approached the cardinal significance of the American exam game. The paragraph, skimmed by a twinkling eye, rousing no more than an amused comment on the inexhaustible inventiveness of those Americans, contains in truth the seeds of a mighty revolution in the intellectual history of all universities, and thus, in due time, of all the world. Harvard has played Yale at English literature. When Oxford annually plays Cambridge at Greek, at modern languages, at history, at theology, at mathematics, at science, the scope of the revolution will begin to be perceived. Learning and intellectual prowess will...
Truly TIME is great. Its style is spreading and now comes a new weekly which has copped its paragraph headings and its lively method of introducing the news. I refer to Affairs, an information service which gives all the low-down on what goes on in the corridors and cloakrooms of Washington. It is very specialized and does not cover the world as does TIME, but its wisdom in borrowing TIME'S features should make it prosper...
...intelligible. Others, undeceived by the play's pretenses, by its dreary smut, by its fairly frequent lapses into complete and trite absurdity, by long stretches in which author e. e. cummings had obviously fallen into the immature fallacy of trying to tell all about Life in a single paragraph, found partially concealed in its three spasmodic acts many specimens of acute and mordant understanding as well as a fair quantity of ribald...
Last week Mr. Hearst's Washington Herald seized Mr. Britten's speech with a cry of joy, and spread the Rhodes Scholarship paragraph in extra big and extra black type as a text for an editorial which covered the entire top-half of a page...