Word: paragraphed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...next day a woman, whom she reluctantly identified as Mrs. George W. Steele, wife of the Commandant of the Air Station at Lakehurst, called on her and gave her a typewritten statement. "The first paragraph had me saying that when I accepted the invitation of the Board to appear as a witness I felt my husband needed defense, but that since that time I had changed my mind. In the second paragraph I was to say that my husband always regarded the Shenandoah, like a manofwar, was not to be used for exhibition purposes, but that he was ready...
...Lansdowne: "In the second paragraph, where it states that my husband would take the Shenandoah anywhere, at any time for a military purpose. It is an insult to his memory to insinuate that he would do such a thing...
...Everlasting Life" gives evidence of the author's ability to write clearly; but in itself it is not distinguished. The last paragraph will surely seem to some readers, not unreasonably, superfluous. "Love 1" is at best much ado about nothing. The first three paragraphs are tedious and muddy; the last two, insipid. It seems the work of a weary man who is expected to write something arresting, witty, facetious, and who would fain comply with the editors' demand. It certainly is neither witty, nor facetious, nor arresting. However pressed for material the editors may have been it was not kind...
...attitude of upperclassmen, and the traditional Harvard indifference, seem to have affected him little, although in the closing paragraph he comments on the deeper effects the University has made upon him. The theme follows...
...gunman like John Selman, who resented any one else killing men in "his" town. Author White's complex is similar: let no one else tell the story of "his" El Paso. It is a reasonable demand and nothing tame rewards its granting. He averages about two corpses a paragraph. He presents whole regiments of unwashed, flannel-shirted, gun-hung bartenders. There is a rakish analogy of the Red man, the White man and the Blue law. There is the story of a Manhattan cocktail, mixed of ingredients ranging from maraschino to sheep-dip, that stretched a U. S. Colonel...