Word: paragraphed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first paragraph allayed suspicion somewhat. It told of dentists, two U. S. dentists, itinerant in Ecuador. The next paragraph was rather dull description of the dentists. But, ha! another dentist! an Ecuadorian of no high ethics. He filled teeth with tin and copper instead of gold. Trembling with apprehension the parents read on, ons not a long storyd for reasons which were not explained had been allowed to accumulate the dust of a quarter century. It had not been written by H. L. Mencken, colyumist, lexicographer, magazine editor, the man who named the Baptist Belt and who derides his less...
Referring to the paragraph "LATIN AMERICA-Mexico's Debt" on p. 19 of your issue of Nov. 23, 1925, Mr. [Thomas W.] Lament has requested me to give you the following information...
...first item in your magazine this week (Dec. 7 issue) consists of a short paragraph stating that Coolidge received a letter from John L. Lewis stating that the bituminous operators had broken their contract. In your zeal to keep up your reputation for giving information in short paragraphs, you failed to mention that this is the same Coolidge who on July 19 assured the newspapers at Swampscott that he "has determined to prevent a coal strike." The strike came, as we all know, and "the little calm, cool man" had the same remedy as usual to suggest, "nothing...
...many invaluable paragraphs appearing in the LETTERS columns of TIME constitute a fund of interesting and instructive reading. However, the paragraph captioned "Wales Flayed" on p. 2 of the issue of Nov. 16, does not. It is silly, childish, rabid...
Here we are well into the second paragraph and we haven't said a serious word about Miss Dempster yet. She escaped from a Mary Pickford tendency to fight in the streets early in the picture, and acted with reasonable sanity and dignity from then on. She is really too lovely altogether to go clowning all over the screen with such a master of the jongoleur's art as W.C. Fields. Fields, by the way, contributes his own blundering broad-faced type of humor which this department has always enjoyed enormously. It is to be regretted that he falls...