Word: paragraphing
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...notice at first (I found that so many other men in the room were doing the same thing that I was almost inconspicuous) I deliberately took out one of the books which I had brought with me, opened it, and began comparing the passage before me with an imaginary paragraph in my bluebook, at which I began writing busily...
...published an article bearing this headline: " California for World Court Mr. Lenroot's Tour Reveals." The justification for this headline was the first paragraph of the article below...
...that dramatic critics will spend a thousand words analyzing a bad play and dismiss the best musical comedy with a paragraph ? Is it mere snobbishness and highbrow affectation that makes them assume that no musical show, however good, is worthy of their heavy artillery? One is inclined to think that this is not altogether the case. Most musical shows are produced by men of stereotyped minds and artistic ignorance who follow the same formulae year after year in the same unimaginative way. Its resistance to change and innovation is stronger than that of a Buddhist Llama and its prevailing keynote...
...Albert Shaw's Review of Reviews will not say whether the American people are unpatriotic in their lack of interest in politics or whether the newspapers are criminally negligent in failing to print political news. But the following paragraph diplomatically scolds either the press or the public or both...
This is the introductory paragraph of a New York Tribune editorial: "If passengers were sailing under a captain who announced the opinion that icebergs were good for a ship, and who thereupon steered his vessel for the nearest berg, what would they do? Would they argue that the important thing was to teach him a jolly good lesson-give the old man rope to hang himself, and so on, and let the ship drive on? Or would they do everything in their power to block him and incidentally save the ship ? "Mayor Hylan is the captain. And New York City...