Word: paragrapher
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first paragraph of your article on the A. A. U. P. and the University of Oregon (TIME, June 10, p. 46) gives a wholly unjust impression of a very able administrator when it says that Dr. W. J. Kerr was found "totally incapable of educational leadership." The Committee on Academic Freedom makes no such charge in its report in the Bulletin, and publishes no specific instance of unfairness or incapacity. On the contrary its report credits Dr. Kerr with substantial results as the educational leader for over 25 years of Oregon State College-bitter rival...
...Anthracite" without getting dirty. Pennsylvania Railroad told ad-readers all about its signal system. Baltimore & Ohio dramatized its operation in a series of adventures (all with happy endings) involving personnel and passengers. Chesapeake & Ohio shrewdly publicized itself as the road surveyed and "founded" by George Washington, made a brilliant paragraph of advertising history with its kitten "Chessie" snugly tucked in a berth ("Sleep Like a Kitten...
...Walter Pater the expression meant, in a famed paragraph in his Renaissance, that: ''Hers is the head upon which all 'the ends of the world are come,' and the eyelids are a little weary. It is a beauty wrought out from within upon the flesh, the deposit, little cell by cell, of strange thoughts and fantastic reveries and exquisite passions. Set it for a moment beside one of those white Greek goddesses or beautiful women of antiquity, and how would they be troubled by this beauty, into which the soul with all its maladies has passed...
...Enquirer, Devereux copy is sacrosanct, no matter how muddled. Copy-readers never tamper with a line. Thus Enquirer readers were profoundly puzzled last week over the following paragraph...
...That paragraph, seemingly clear enough, seemed to be the key-paragraph in the social service report presented last week to the New York East Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church-a body representing all the Methodists eastward of Third Avenue in New York, on Long Island and in Connecticut as far as New Haven. Without much argument the Conference adopted the report. This seemed to mark the Conference as forthright, courageous. It seemed to demonstrate that the New York East Methodists had thoughtfully examined Capitalism, had totally and finally rejected it and were ready to lead their people on toward...