Word: paragraphed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...spurring to action ("Write that letter!"), inspiring to wisecrack with my wife ("Do drop 'Thanks for the buggy ride,' George!") See? TIME'S informatory value being "as every one knows," taken for granted-accurate, complete, swift. . . . But, my dear Sirs, isn't that an absurd paragraph I have just composed? It is a tyro's effort to paraphrase TIME style. It chokes with adjectives. It halts and confuses and baffles even me, who wrote it. And it reminds me very much-including its possibilities-of the advertisements of TIME that have lately been appearing...
Eleven thousand anxious boys and girls watched last week, as they had already watched for a fortnight, for the postman. But even when he came they turned away still worried, depressed, edgy. At last their parents spotted a paragraph in the newspapers: "Grading of College Applicants Delayed. . . ." Their tension remained, but the 11,000 at least understood that the College Entrance Examination Board had not forgotten them, that it was delayed in its terrible function of correcting the nervously scribbled "books" of 22,000 would-be matriculants to Vassar, Smith, Princeton, Yale, Wellesley, Harvard, etc., owing to the facts: that...
...third paragraph you speak of Bolivar liberating Central America. This allusion certainly would create a misconception in the mind of anyone not familiar with Spanish-American history. As the only part of Central America, properly socalled, liberated by Bolivar was the Republic of Panama you could hardly refer to him in that manner...
...second point is in regard to the Liberator being sustained in perpetual office until his death, the last paragraph. As a matter of fact, Bolivar resigned on the 1st of March, 27th of April or the 4th of May, 1830, according to how one wishes to view his various resignations. As he died on the 17th of December while he was endeavoring to leave Colombia, he hardly held office up to the time of his death, although there was an effort to place him back in power at the moment of his demise...
...book he suggests it a single paragraph what he regards as the solution, that is, a League of Nations to which all states are party. Whether or not the reader agrees with the author, he can hardly fail to find the body of the book interesting and stimulating. Mr. Dickinson does himself an injustice when he says that the book will be unappreciated by any but trained minds. Rarely are history and literary charm so well united