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Word: paragraphed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Judged by the standards Mr. Train sets himself in some chapters, the story is a disappointment. It seems that the love of women ruins books as well as men. But the people who have become accustomed to the concluding closeups of unreal worlds are not disappointed. For the last paragraph submerges with lotus-like caresses any surviving trace of thought-provoking material...

Author: By D. C. Backus ., | Title: Two of Harvard's Novelists | 4/10/1926 | See Source »

...Freudian shows early in this tale of triumph, for the opening paragraph opens as follows. "When Bobbie Keaton came to Harvard, he dreamt nightly of a little gold football decorated with a crimson "H". The three things which Bobbie particularly liked were Audrey Parker, football, and a much used grimy pipe." Here, gentlemen, is also revealed, though I might let you guess--the eternal triangle. Evidently longevity is promised Audrey as well as football. But such minor errors cannot blot the heroic vigor of the plot structure. That Bobbie did not bother with the freshman team matters very little. Revere...

Author: By D. G. G., | Title: THE CRIME | 3/4/1926 | See Source »

...quarter saw the ball see-saw in the center of the field with both sides striving savagely but vainly to advance it. . . . At a nod from the coach, Bobbie, his face beaming, pranced on to the gridiron." Then this domestic touch to add antithesis or something which deserves a paragraph...

Author: By D. G. G., | Title: THE CRIME | 3/4/1926 | See Source »

...interest of accuracy, you may as well correct the last paragraph on p. 32 of Vol. VII, No. 6, and have it read "father" instead of "brother," which was the correct relationship of Grove L. Johnson to Hiram W. Johnson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Mar. 1, 1926 | 3/1/1926 | See Source »

Castle Square--"Abie's Irish Rose", at 8.15: There's always this little darling waiting for us at the end of the paragraph. Papa can't spank you now, he's busy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 2/25/1926 | See Source »

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