Word: paragrapher
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Protestants in Rome, because they are among the American Red Cross's supporters, might get the credit in Italy for Relief work done in Italy by the Red Cross.-ED. Women Dentists Sirs: Under the head of "People" in your Aug. 4 issue you devote a paragraph to the new President of the American Dental Association, but take no notice of the fact that the women dentists met in Denver at the same time and had an election also. I am neither business nor professional woman, nor do I know the head of either organization; but I like...
...hatreds flamed and religious wars burst out. Fanatics seized governments. The U. S. sent a crusading army of ten million into central Asia. Economic systems faltered. Workmen abandoned their labors. Women became untamed sexual aggressors. Problems that would occupy 20 volumes are dismissed in sentences. Nations perish in a paragraph, continents in a chapter. Each phase of the debacle is outlined with unflagging vigor and a wild flow of words. Finally Phaeton Andrews, last man to survive, after a voyage from rotting New York to savage England, ages slowly to his death in 2027, his mind a strange confusion...
...Evanston, Ill. by the Methodist Federation for Social Service. The general subject was "The Layman and the Economic Order."† The religious as well as the daily Press paid little attention to the meeting. It seemed purely a Methodist talk fest. Last fortnight, however. The Nation discovered a paragraph in Mr. Edgerton's paper which Methodist publications seem to have ignored...
...paragraph: "I am proud to say that the morning-prayer exercises in my factory have had the finest economic effect. Workers are producing far more goods than before the prayer system was started some years ago. We have made it almost impossible for anyone but a Christian to get a job. We examine applicants for work to see if they have any dangerous ideas. We have been able by that process to keep our plant free of trouble...
...mass of grist flowing daily through the New York Herald Tribune's copy desk, beginning next week (July 1), will be one telegraphed sheet immune from the copyreader's darting pencil. A chaste headline may be scribbled at its top, neat paragraph marks made, but nothing else. Rendering this piece of copy sacred will be the line: "By Calvin Coolidge...