Word: paragraphed
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...note. No, you're not. It was a typographical error. The paragraph should read: "I do not mean that every claim of the privilege should automatically be followed by discharge. For there are many possible situations, some very complex. I do mean that discharge on this ground 9by a private corporation) is not always wicked...
...With half a tongue in cheek, Wilder likes to say that the first paragraph of The Woman of Andros is "one of the most beautiful in the English language." The paragraph begins: "The earth sighed as it turned in its course; the shadow of night crept gradually along the Mediterranean, and Asia was left in darkness. The great cliff that was one day to be called Gibraltar held for a long time a gleam of red and orange, while across from it the mountains of Atlas showed deep blue pockets in their shining sides. The caves that surround the Neapolitan...
...your Nov. 10 issue there was a paragraph devoted to the outcome of the senatorial election in New Jersey . . . I was described as a "Wall Street lawyer who had served briefly as Under Secretary of the Army." I served a few days short of two years as Under Secretary, following nine months as Assistant Secretary. I must say I am curious to know what length of service is required in order to get a man out of the "brief" category...
Winchell's column carried the Schlesinger paragraph in conjunction with a castigation of the Hariford Board of Education, which had voted to allow singer Paul Robeson to use Hartford's Weaver high School auditorium for a contest in behalf of the Progressive Party...
Hemingway's Snows of Kilimanjaro starts with a terse and inscrutable paragraph about a dead leopard atop a snow-clad African mountain. That paragraph stopped 20th Century Fox dead in its tracks. Faced with the problem of going along with an essentially plotless and often unfathomable character study or scrapping it for a more conventional plot, 20th Century screenwriter solved it by choosing neither and writing in a mass of extras and animals instead. The result is a spectacular mudflat of a film, neither good Hemingway nor good...