Word: paragraphed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This is the introductory paragraph of a New York Tribune editorial: "If passengers were sailing under a captain who announced the opinion that icebergs were good for a ship, and who thereupon steered his vessel for the nearest berg, what would they do? Would they argue that the important thing was to teach him a jolly good lesson-give the old man rope to hang himself, and so on, and let the ship drive on? Or would they do everything in their power to block him and incidentally save the ship ? "Mayor Hylan is the captain. And New York City...
...smoker, which will begin at 8 o'clock in the Living Room of the Union an amendment to the Constitution of the Senior class will be considered. The proposed amendment is the omission of paragraph (c) in Article I, Section 1. At present the section reads...
...wholly not in vain (see paragraph...
...complain? Instead of a professor a charming young damsel, albeit her nose was powdered. And the thoughtful youth enjoyed the lecture. In fact he seemed to think it was one of his regular courses, for he started to assemble his hat and coat when he judged the last paragraph had begun. And as the applause died out he too clapped his hands together once and decorously departed. M. S. ENSLIN, Grad...
...Kawa are making them, seem ridiculous, stories like this are unconsciously being enacted to prove the case for romance. Stevenson and Richard Harding Davis had nothing more improbable to recount, and their best efforts failed to give the touch of credibility which is carried in a newspaper paragraph like this. As long as there are still truths stranger than fiction, there is hope for the survival of the "dime novel" and the "movie" adventure films which have been suffering a fade-out lately from poverty of material...