Word: paragrapher
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...noted with interest the story of the death of John D. Rockefeller [TIME, May 31], especially the paragraph telling of his father. You might be interested in this bit of local Freeport history...
Talky-Talk. Wells's straw-men are also ventriloquial dummies: they all have the dubious gift of gabble. And for every keen sentence he lets them blurt, he makes them babble a tedious paragraph. Star-Begotten is a short book but spots in it seem very long. His scientists may be angels in the laboratory or operating room but often they talk like poor Poll. Says one of them: "In a fools' world sane men will have a bad time anyhow; but they can help wind up the world of fools even if they cannot hope...
Chapter three .... "The Outbreak of the War." That's funny, it didn't give the causes. Here it says the President was assassinated, and the paragraph hasn't been marked. Oh God! No wonder, that fool only marked the first chapter! Well, I'll look it all up in the Encyclopedia...
...same time President Conant wrote both Walsh and Sweezy announcing that he very much regretted the misconstruction of the University's April 6th statement "as a reflection on your teaching capacity and scholarly ability." In the last paragraph of the letter the President pointed out that the committee will investigate not only the case of the two men but also "the larger questions involved in the promotion of younger...
TIME, May 3, p. 47, fifth paragraph, "the New York Times's Dr. Finley says: I have walked 70 miles...