Word: paragraphs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Bargains in Floor Coverings" Under the large white elephant was a paragraph: "The Reason: A white elephant is an article that has been a slow seller. . . . They are 'White Elephants' to us but they are ex- traordinary bargains to you." Readers, thinking this a frank, logical and apt explanation of a clever advertisement, patronized the sale...
...volume there is also a paragraph describing the dress required by an undergraduate, whose coat should be "black-mixed, single breasted, with a rolling cape square at the end, and with pocket flaps: waist reaching to the natural waist, lapel of the same length; skirts reaching to the bend of the knee; three crows-feet, made of black silk cord, on the lower part of the sleeve of a Senior, two on that of the Junior, and one on that of a Sophomore. The pantaloons of black mixed or of black bombazet, or when of cotton or linen fabric...
...bill is now before the State legislature to put an end to the arbitrary suppression of books by police sergeants; who have been called up it is said, by the Watch and Ward and asked to read and gasp "at page 256, the third paragraph, if they want to see real smut...
After this there was a clamor about the most fitting burial place for so great an author. It was decided that the ashes of the man who had written, in the last paragraph of one of his greatest novels, "'Justice was done' . . . and the President of the Immortals had ended his sport with Tess. . . ." should be taken to Westminster Abbey, burial place of famed Englishmen, preserved in a vault. His heart, removed from his body before cremation, was buried in the earth at Dorchester...
...page 386 a succinct paragraph sweetly declares that to present the next forty years in which Talleyrand was Minister of Foreign Affairs under the Consulate; during the Empire; at Vienna; and under Louis XVIII;- "Would entail the survey of the history of France and Europe during the period", Perish the thought! And let us by all means make haste and be off in the remaining 125 pages to a consideration of the exciting details of Talleyrand's liason and marriage with Madame Grande, the very beautiful, albeit mildly illiterate, daughter of a French official at Tranquebar in India...