Word: paragrapher
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reads Paragraph 1,807 of U. S. Public Law No. 361, the Tariff Act of 1930. Its legalistic loophole: the word "original." Last week it appeared that Manhattan customs officials had squeezed certain of the grey-and-chalk Paris street scenes of Maurice Utrillo through the loophole, ruling that they were copies of postcards, therefore commercial rather than original art, therefore dutiable at 15% of the price they fetched in France. Duty was applied specifically on one importation of Manhattan's Perls (pronounced perils) Galleries, Rue Saint-Vincent a Montmartre; and on a score imported by the Valentine Galleries...
...paragraph ending under his picture: unless most of Washington et al rhyme it with "Mice," the title to Secretary Ickes' undelivered blast "Loaded Dies" would have gone with the wind...
Ironic comedy as well as tragedy, The Death of the Heart tells a story as old as wickedness: the world's betrayal of innocence. But Elizabeth Bowen also introduces a provocative interaction: the world's discomfiture at the hands of the innocent. One paragraph condenses the pattern of the simple theme...
...three-hour session Joseph Stefani, business representative of the locals, laid the contract, paragraph by paragraph, before more than 200 vociferous employees...
...becoming increasingly important from reading the above paragraph that mature men and women should have some knowledge about birth control and the many causes of divorce. Also they should know something of the effects such differences as age, class, grade, religion, occupation, politics, hobby, color, and sex have upon marital relations. Since every one of these factors has a great bearing on the success of failure of a marriage, expert information on such subjects ought to be available to college students...