Word: paragrapher
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After sending in a two-year subscription to TIME so that I could get my news complete, concise and readable, picture my dismay in trying to decipher your paragraph on Technocrat Howard Scott, The Man- "obfuscate," "rodo-montade," (my dictionary gives the adjective as "rodomont"), "ratiocinated," "transmogrified," "pupated...
...refer to that paragraph in your issue of Dec. 12, under the sub-caption "Debts, Disarmament and Davis," of National Affairs, wherein you state...
...brief paragraph on babies v. dogs provoked a broadside from lovers of canines in your issue of Dec. 5. I was glad to hear from them and hope many more will express their views and give facts in support thereof, as I would consider the question from every angle in a book on the subject. If you cannot publish all the letters received, please forward them to me, and also invite your readers, pro or con. to write me direct. No matter how hard they hit. I shall appreciate their honest opinions, as a member for many years...
...effect it said: "The U. S. is entitled to regard this Dec. 15 payment in any light it pleases; but we reserve the right to hope that the settlement question will be re-opened and that this payment may then be credited to that account." Most significant was the paragraph...
...author of the forensic witticism mentioned in the last paragraph was not Isaacs, but [Edward Henry, Lord] Carson. This is well-known and a constant subject of reference in after-dinner speeches-in other words, a Carson chestnut...