Word: paragraphing
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Petrillo chuckled. A newsman asked which paragraph of the contract he liked best. Said he, always explicit: "The one with the dough...
...Each cell of the body contains a minute suction and pressure pump. . . . Before Alfred Lawson explained PENETRABILITY . . . no one seemed to know the cause of capillary action. The foregoing paragraph should clear up that problem...
...standard section of O'Nolan's column is a paragraph or two of bogus Keatsiana, in which he hangs most of his laboriously manufactured puns on the poet and his "friend" Chapman. Samples...
...Beaten. Newspapers recorded the death in a routine paragraph. The case might have ended there, but Melendes' unclaimed body was sent to Washington University's Medical School. Never had the University's pathologists seen such a battered, pulpy corpse, such a sea of hemorrhages. Bruises were almost uncountable. Their autopsy showed that the entire body, from head to toes, had been pummeled and beaten, on the ears and neck, forehead and temples, arms, hands, chest,' kidneys, thighs, legs. Scarcely a spot was untouched; hardly a blood vessel intact. The doctors noted that many a bruise...
...Senator Ellison DuRant ("Cotton Ed") Smith, all warmed up and ready to go, hit the air with a diatribe on Americans and the War Effort. Blowing like a grampus, garrumphy, irascible Cotton Ed got so interested in his work (denouncing New Deal regimentation) that he skipped a paragraph, turned the page of his script and came upon the middle of an entirely unrelated sentence about gasoline rationing. Twenty interminable, script-shuffling seconds later listeners on 118 stations heard his frustrated bellow...