Word: paragrapher
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that alumni be permitted to pay a player's expenses through school provided they adhere to the restrictions of the above paragraph...
...printer page by page, found before he reached the middle that his book was getting too long. He made some revisions and excisions and his friend Edmond Malone, famed Shakespearean scholar, made more in the interests of elegance, taste, discretion, brevity. Malone also rewrote so extensively that "hardly a paragraph was printed exactly as Boswell wrote it," and Boswell's repeated defense of the Journal, that Johnson himself had seen and approved it, was "gravely misleading." Although the high points of the previous Journal-the accounts of Johnson reproving Boswell for drunkenness, the celebrated orders to Mrs. MacLeod...
...paragraph headed "Outstanding Events," Dr. Abbot did not fail to give prominent mention in last week's report to his studies of solar radiation and terrestrial weather. Long and laborious research has convinced him that world weather tends to repeat itself in 23-year cycles, which he finds not only in longtime weather records but in tree rings, Great Lakes water levels, sediment laid down by ancient glaciers, annual catches of cod and mackerel. Temperature and precipitation forecasts for 1934 in 30 U. S. cities made on the basis of the Abbot cycle turned out, he declared, two-thirds...
...King when Prince of Wales laid the cornerstone of the Royal Infirmary at Aberdeen. Last week His Majesty caused the Court Circular to appear one morning in such a manner that the first paragraph announced that Mrs. Simpson had arrived at Balmoral Castle while the second para graph said that the Duke & Duchess of York had opened the Royal Infirmary at Aberdeen. While Their Royal Highnesses were doing so. His Majesty, wearing a kilt and with a Scottish tarn o' shanter set jauntily over one ear, arrived at the Aberdeen railway station and greeted Mrs. Simpson as she alighted...
There was nothing constructive in the Smith Speech, and it became more apparent with each paragraph that it was merely the swan song of a bitter and frustrated man, from under whom Mr. Roosevelt had yanked the Presidential chair in 1932. His denial of jealousy rings as false as his plea of poverty, in spite of many attempted humorous allusions to his brown derby...