Word: paragrapher
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Italian Somaliland border of southern Ethiopia, a Swedish Red Cross unit was operating with the tribesmen of energetic Ras Desta Demtu, the "good" son-in-law of Haile Selassie. Italian aviators knew they were there, for only that morning copies of // Messaggero of Rome reached Stockholm, containing a paragraph from Italian Somaliland saying that Italian aviators flying over the southern front had seen people on the ground near hospital tents waving Swedish flags to call attention to their position. Yet last week a squadron of Italian planes circled over the Ethiopian camp to which the Swedish hospital unit was attached...
...consolation prize Justice Stone's dissenting opinion in the A.A.A. case is being hailed by New Dealers as a heroic statement of the liberal creed and a judicial vindication of their ill starred policies. But upon close examination the opinion is neither heroic nor Judicial, and from the first paragraph on expresses a fear and trembling one hardly expects to hear from the Supreme Court. Justice Stone appears far less worried about the constitutionality of the A.A.A. than he is about some imagined danger of the conservative wing of the court rocking the boat amid the troubled waters of modern...
...execution of Paragraph 3 of Article XVI of the League Covenant," dryly observed Pierre Laval, "I have not hesitated to pledge France's aid to Great Britain on the sea and land and in the air, if she is attacked by Italy in the course of application of sanctions. . . . Why should I not frankly confess my fear and dread of an incident of the sort which history often produces, an incident which could drag France into a war which I have done everything to avert. The more rigorous the obligations imposed upon France by the League become, the more...
...ever really read a book printed before 1800 has been amused by the old typographical character for the lower case "s". It is no funnier to one who is familiar with the period than the fact that men then were knee-breeches and not trousers. But Mr. Thompson quotes paragraph after paragraph to show how ludicrous this custom was, and it affords him an opportunity for a bad pun or two. There are other puns. The movement of the fleet during the evacuation of Boston by the British in 1776 reminded one witness, it is recorded, of a "moving forest...
...twice as much applause during and after his speech as any of the other men on the platform. Yet an innocent person reading the Crimson's article would get exactly the opposite impression. Mr. Baldwin was not mentioned in the headlines or lead, and was given only the last paragraph, some ten or twelve lines...