Word: paragrapher
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...writing my column 'Day by Day,' all the world is my subject, so I shall not want. My immediate stamping ground is New York City. Here, the world passes in review. If a marriage occurs on Park Avenue it is fine material for a paragraph or two. If a new star appears in the footlights on Broadway, I go to the show and often give over an entire column to the effect the production has upon me. There is always some celebrity coming from Europe and I often go to the docks to catch a landing word from the great...
Snip-snip-snip-snip. Herbert Hoover was cutting up into paragraphs a rough draft of a campaign speech. His scissors made the only sound in the quiet of the Lincoln Study. Over a large table he spread out his cuttings. He picked up a paragraph on balancing the Budget and a paragraph on Democratic extravagance, pinned them together. Likewise joined were paragraphs on New Zealand butter and tariff protection, on Democratic campaign tactics and a newspaper clipping of 50 years ago. Thus the separate paragraphs were being woven together into an oratorical tapestry when an aide knocked on the study...
...Newton paragraph on Living with Ourselves: "It is a fine art of life to know how to do it. Few of us have mastered the art, hence we are afraid. We shun loneliness; we do not know the secret of solitude-a very different thing. First, we must face the facts, especially the things that make us hateful to ourselves and others, and deal with them...
...below that of September 1931, but fewer cigarets have been smoked this year than every month last year except August, and September's showing was better than the nine-month average, which was 10.12% below 1931's. Careful readers of financial pages could find an occasional paragraph tucked away in a corner reporting the price rumors and citing the popularity of cigarets as the cause, but newspapers were not inclined to go deeply into the subject-not so much through fear of hurting important advertisers' feelings as because of a traditional journalistic policy that those...
...find here a paragraph referring to my 'dark labor record.' I'm glad it's neither pink nor red. But they say: 'First and indelibly his early record is clouded by his former partnerships which contracted cheap Chinese coolie labor in South African mines.' . . . It implies that I engaged in the slavery of human beings...