Word: paragrapher
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...year, neither did the Record stint space to report, for Philadelphians without the engraved card necessary to pass detectives and a fresh-painted picket fence, all details such as pink satin walls, pink lilies and pink soapsuds fountain in the swank Bellevue-Stratford Hotel.* Invidiously balanced against a paragraph pointing out that Peter Arrell Brown Widener II's fortune was established by his grandfather, the Record reported that James Harvey Gravell started to make a rustproof paint preparation in 1914 with nothing but "a bucket, a broomstick and a good idea," built up a $1,250,000 business with...
...resolution then went on to explain in a supplementary paragraph that "It is hoped than an expression of opinion by undergraduates may help to clarify the problems being faced by the Athletic Association. This report is inspired by the fact that Harvard's "Athletics for All' plan has been threatended in recent years by small total receipts and that funds for President Conant's "athletic endowment" plan have not yet been available. Further, it is the feeling of the Council that the growth of the House Plan has brought up a very perplexing problem, which has not yet been entirely...
...production naively presents an emasculated re-examination as the key to America's way out. Again we stand at the Cumberland Gap to hear the pounding of the buffalo feet, the tread of the Indian, the tone of the oxcart--and in many more pages than Turner's memorable paragraph. Because of the frontier America need become neither Fascist nor Communist. Just what it will become, Seldes veils in a murky optimism...
...brought to his bedside, a timely installment of his far-famed "Today" column: "Another Christmas has come. . . . Nineteen Hundred and Thirty-six years ago . . . 'Peace on earth, 'good will toward men'. . . ." Before he could finish, Mr. Brisbane was tired out. His son Seward furnished the final paragraph, the first writing not actually by Arthur Brisbane ever to appear in the daily editorial column he had turned out for 39 years. On Christmas morning, the sick old editor's physicians prepared an oxygen tent, but could not use it, for Death had come to Arthur Brisbane...
Lest an erroneous impression prevail, I am impelled to direct your attention to the paragraph in your issue of Nov. 9, p. 26 which includes this statement: "Despite lukewarm support from Chicago's Kelly-Nash machine, Democratic Governor Henry Horner piled up a 293,000 lead in Cook County...