Word: paragraphed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...previous paragraph is, of course, quite unfair. In what it attempts to do The Outline of Literature is highly successful. Its pages, simple, succinct, easy to read, should give anyone with a modicum of intelligence a good, general, working idea of the entire, fantastic progression of the written word from the first rude scratchings on rocks to the beginnings of the Elizabethan era. Its frequent quotations should inspire in its readers a desire to turn from it to the masterpieces with which it deals. The Bible is well treated, and from a modern viewpoint. Each chapter is followed...
...notice at first (I found that so many other men in the room were doing the same thing that I was almost inconspicuous) I deliberately took out one of the books which I had brought with me, opened it, and began comparing the passage before me with an imaginary paragraph in my bluebook, at which I began writing busily...
...published an article bearing this headline: " California for World Court Mr. Lenroot's Tour Reveals." The justification for this headline was the first paragraph of the article below...
...that dramatic critics will spend a thousand words analyzing a bad play and dismiss the best musical comedy with a paragraph ? Is it mere snobbishness and highbrow affectation that makes them assume that no musical show, however good, is worthy of their heavy artillery? One is inclined to think that this is not altogether the case. Most musical shows are produced by men of stereotyped minds and artistic ignorance who follow the same formulae year after year in the same unimaginative way. Its resistance to change and innovation is stronger than that of a Buddhist Llama and its prevailing keynote...
...Albert Shaw's Review of Reviews will not say whether the American people are unpatriotic in their lack of interest in politics or whether the newspapers are criminally negligent in failing to print political news. But the following paragraph diplomatically scolds either the press or the public or both...