Word: paragraphed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...burgesses. Agobard, Archbishop of Lyons, was moved as early as 836 to discuss the situation in a scathing paragraph: "The actors, the mimes, and the deceiving and infamous joculators are given money to get drunk on, while the poor of the Church are dying in the agonies of hunger " It was a pretty pass. People, apparently, would rather hear some pinchbeck fellow gurgle a roulade than listen to the best constructed sermon. When, therefore, the guildsmen of prosperous towns began to give simple dramas, inspired by the magnificent theatricality of Mass, and evolved from Bible story, prelates everywhere came gradually...
...their copy of the New York World. Knowing from experience that the World would let no day go by without chucking the Administration under the chin, they turned confidently to the editorial page, ran expectant gaze over a column captioned "Author! Author!" Could it be true? The opening paragraph ran, ". . . Mr. Coolidge really ought to think twice about making such a speech as he made Tuesday evening. Another speech like this one, and first thing Mr. Coolidge knows he may have a suit for plagiarism on his hands, brought by the editors of the Encyclopaedia, Britannica." Democrat readers beamed, folded...
Last fortnight Times readers were shocked. A complete reversal of policy was implicit in a small paragraph, conspicuously "boxed" (ruled off), which began appearing daily, signed-Oh, odor of the Follies, chewing-gum and the strident New York World!-by Funnyman Will Rogers, the prairie pantaloon, purveyor of bathos to Demos...
...carping letter, although I did not intend it so. Pride injured by an error of omission prompted it. Perhaps sometime in the near future you will have an opportunity to discuss Southern progress. If so, I trust that you will remember this unique field, devote to it a paragraph or two. CHAS. A. HAZEN
...cast reflection on the denomination rather than to present an item of news which has naturally caused much criticism of the individual; but why asssume that the religion is responsible for the dereliction of one of its adherents? More important yet, why does the editor in the last paragraph imply that it is a foregone conclusion that the "sect" is "fanatical...