Word: paragraphs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sputtered LaGuardia: "Have you read this paragraph? . . . Do you know what it means? Do you get that 'or not'? . . . It is intentional; it is vicious; it is malicious. Why, I ask you in the name of decency and humanity, did you put it in? Is it the [U.S.] Army? If it is the Army, come on, let us speak up. Let us say that we are going to throw [the D.P.s] to the brasshats. The program of the Army is to throw these people loose on the German economy. You know what that means...
Collier's readers last week were given a pair of rosy-hued glasses through which to goggle at the progress and percentages of Boston's "Our Jim" Curley. But the tint wasn't applied heavily enough for one paragraph of Curleyana: that color should have been CRIMSON...
...press found little exciting in the espionage trial of Russian Lieut. Nikolai Redin. Most papers carried a casual paragraph or two each day of the trial. But one reporter at the press table in Seattle filed a thumping 1,500 to 2,500 words a night to New York, and got no squawks from his employer. He was greying, 41-year-old William E. Dodd Jr., son of the late U.S. Ambassador to Germany. His employer: Tass, short for Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union...
Although TIME'S footnotes serve many different functions, our editors have found them an ideal device for disposing of long, dull Government reports, etc. whose gist can be given in a paragraph or two. They work hard at this kind of condensation, but occasionally the subject matter will not condense. Once, for instance, one of our National Affairs writers had to explain the game of poker in a footnote (the subject had come up on the floor of the U.S. Senate, and it was news). On his first try, the footnote turned out to be almost as long...
...plot really belongs under the list in paragraph two. It concerns a would-be Boston mayor whose Republican (and that really dates it!) sanctity is injured by rumors about the life of one of his nieces whom he has permitted to go to New York unaccompanied. Said candidate, with his wife and the niece's sister, journey to the big city to get some first-hand information. Niece number one manages successfully to conceal the fact that she has been singing and swinging in a Bowery night club for her keep, then makes good her boast of being with...