Word: paragrapher
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...offering the author the opportunity in passages of rare and striking beauty to relieve the tension he has developed. The unfolding of Peter Franzman's quarrel with the world is convincingly done, the scenes of passion compelling and beautiful. Here the author's technique becomes suddenly apparent in one paragraph. Peter's life is like a series of vividly coloured bits of film in his own mind. His memory is the filter through which every new emotion is perceived. Friesen's book is a series of magnificently complete little pictures, strung together on the thread of a man's life...
...actuated in the adoption of this movement through the reading of a most interesting paragraph by one of America's leading Republicans in the past, Abraham Lincoin, who said, "If I were trying to read, much less answer all the attacks made on me, this shop might well be closed for any other business...
...under the title of "New CINCUS," by which you no doubt mean Commander-in-Chief, U. S. I do so because I think your dirty digs at Vice Admiral Hepburn are entirely uncalled for, misleading and spiteful. . . . Any fool can readily see the innuendo in the first paragraph of the article. Vice Admiral Hepburn does not owe his appointment as Commander-in-Chief of the Fleet in any degree to the fact that the President and the Secretary of the Navy are old acquaintances of his, as it appears to me you have clearly insinuated. Their knowledge of his absolute...
...submit that there is a limit to blind loyalty. ... I suggest for the members of my party on Capitol Hill here in Washington that they take their minds off the Tuesday that follows the first Monday in November. ... I ask them to read from the Holy Scripture the paragraph of the Prodigal Son, and to follow his example. 'Stop wasting your substance in a foreign land and come back to your father's house...
...second day, though, something like a plan began to emerge. A significant paragraph in Justice Roberts' AAA decision had said it was illegal for Congress to contract with farmers to submit to government regulation, but that Congress could still appropriate money to be spent under specific conditions to achieve a constitutional end. Therefore, let the Government, without making contracts to regulate future production, pay farmers after performance for conserving the fertility of their soil. Conservation of a natural resource might be construed as in "the general Welfare" although the chief means of conservation might be withdrawing land from cultivation...