Word: paragrapher
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...would be idle to attempt a summary in one sentence or in one paragraph of our reasons, frequently expressed in our columns during the past year, for the conviction that extra-curricular activities are at present on the wane. Individualism, lack of interest in all class elections, a decline of respect for a Varsity "P", thinning competitions for the Princetonian and Tiger, rough sledding for the Intime, the failing popularity of baseball, smaller squads in football, apathy in regard to "student government," the tremendous rise of informal sports like squash, golf, and tennis, consternation of advisory athletic committees about...
Friends pointed over & again to a paragraph from a recent Satevepost article by Will Irwin, the man who is supposed to know Herbert Hoover best of all. The paragraph...
When McNaught Syndicate announced that Alfred Emanuel Smith would write a weekly newspaper "feature" (TIME, Nov. 24) many there were who expected to see the Brown Derby perched jauntily at the top of every paragraph. Last week the first Smith article appeared in 70 Saturday and Sunday papers. Although Unemployment was the subject, there was no smack of stump-speeching, certainly no Hoover-heckling.* Indeed, Writer Smith noted that "We have had breadlines in New York City even during our most prosperous times." He chided the U. S. public for its short-sighted failure to prepare unemployment relief during days...
...designed by Joseph Urban: a moonlit garden, with eucalyptus sprays, silver birches, potted roses, a gauze canopy speckled with stars. Guests: 1,000. Cost: $100,000. Item: 2,000 cases of champagne. To an account of the Hutton ball the New York Times gave two columns. A two inch paragraph on the same page reported the debut, the same evening, of Florence, daughter of potent, conservative Banker & Mrs. George Fisher Baker Jr. Setting: the Baker home. Guest list: small. Chicago's outstanding debutante balls-of-the-week were two: Mr. & Mrs. Andrew Watson Armour (meats) and Mr. & Mrs. Walter...
...Charles Augustus Lindbergh's history is recounted as follows: "Enrolled in flying school, Lincoln, Neb., in 1922; flew alone from New York to Paris, 1927." Col. Lindbergh's father-in-law Dwight Whitney Morrow does not appear. Nicholas Murray Butler's paragraph occupies more space in the volume than that of any other man or woman, British or foreign...