Word: paragrapher
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...successful actress we have seen in several years, displays consummate skill and undeniable promise. She is only a little child, possibly fourteen. We beg of you not to conjure up visions of a new Shirl--no, it would be a sacrilege to mention the two names in the same paragraph. Miss Pilbeam is not cute, she is not clever; on the other hand, she is beautiful, and she is unquestionably a great dramatic actress. We do not hesitate in promising a future equally as great as this, her very great beginning...
...League is fighting a losing battle in trying to keep its head above water in an era so nationalistic as ours. Mr. Gathorne-Hardy has so completely lost faith in the League as an instrument for maintaining peace, that in attempting to appraise the situation in his last paragraph, he cannot even mention it by name...
Thus a telegraph machine in the Manhattan offices of the United Press began to print a message one afternoon last week. Sentence followed sentence-50 words, 100 words, 200 words. The machine clicked on, stopped to catch its breath, began a new paragraph...
Finally we find a "Correspondence" column where an anonymous "Student Correspondent" airs his woes. Unfortunately grammar gets the better of the writer, and in the second paragraph, after eleven lines of wandering, he is forced to conclude what has not yet developed into a sentence by a despairing...
...North American Newspaper Alliance. Proud is he of his early experiences as a Manhattan newshawk in the days of the Herman Rosenthal murder and the sinking of the Titanic. Yet he can, on occasion, forget his reporter's training long enough to put extra barbs on some paragraph of gossip, or to roll a log for one of his favorites. His humor has much of the feminine savagery of Dorothy Parker...