Word: paragraphs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...creative task he had set himself and fell back on bare-faced bed time simplicity when his spirit drooped. It is readable because the legions of sentences are compact and brisk of pace, the characters "stay put" and the antiCapitalistic sermon at the end only lasts a paragraph. Nevertheless, even so ardent a Socialist and generous a man as Floyd Dell must be suspected of gentle hypocrisy when he declares of Oil!: "I can hardly tear myself away from...
...Result the paper grew out of its native earth and some fine story writers and poets uncovered. Condensation was the main need. Editor Archibald used to say to us scribes: "If you have an idea for a story see if you can boil it down to ten-line par [paragraph] and then to a one-line epigram." As he paid only on space it was Spartan ruling. The best sonnets ever written by Aussies-Bayldons on Marlowe and O'Downds "Last sea-thing dredged by sailor Time from Space"-received the same pay as a dog fight...
...TIME, June 13, p. 11, there is a paragraph called "Corruption" in which the comparison is made between "Caesar and his Brutus, Jesus Christ and his Judas Iscariot, the United States and its Benedict Arnold and Jefferson Davis, and Illinois and Len Small." While this quotation is from a statement made by Representative J. Bert Miller of Illinois, it is repugnant to your Southern readers that the name of Jefferson Davis should be associated with such names as these...
...Almost the whole of [an important paragraph in] Mr. Churchill's description of the battle of the Marne ... is pure fable...
...week without comment the significant fact that onetime (1921-26) Governor-General Baron Byng of Canada has refused to pay a so-called "peerage patent fee" demanded by the Treasury. Theoretically this sum, amounting to several hundred pounds, is due as payment for inserting in the Official Gazette a paragraph to the effect that, last fall, Baron Byng was elevated to the style of Viscount. Actually, of course, the "fee" is a time-honored bit of British graft. How did Lord Byng explain his nonpayment...