Word: paragraphs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week for her services, and realized no more clearly than the authors that she was helping run a roto-lactor. Some 40 other high-school kids, delighted to be in the publishing game at similar wages, sent out Mr. Flumiani's oleaginous form letters. The "season paragraph" told the author that the time (any old time) was ripe to bursting for his book to appear. The "fighting paragraph" bucked him up if he seemed to feel his work was unworthy of publication. The "action paragraph" read: "We believe that this book is an original. It reveals an individual mind...
Unfortunately, the third paragraph contained an erroneous statement regarding a particular plant. You wrote: "The Glenn L. Martin with a half billion dollars of defense orders hasn't a single Negro in 18,000 workers." The fact of the matter is that, owing to continuous picketing by the Baltimore branch of the National Negro Congress, the plant in question yielded to such pressure several months ago and has scores of Negro workers on its payroll. I think that, in fairness to Mr. Martin, who also issued a statement at the time enjoining other employers to follow his example, this fact...
...journal of an old friend, Van Wyck Brooks in his latest volume ranges from painting to nationalism in meandering around the dusty corners of a literary critic's mind. Brooks skips from meeting Theodore Roosevelt at a Harvard Advocate punch to the funeral of Mark Twain in the next paragraph. Many such incidents are interesting, but the clumsy devices of editorial comments and numerous long footnotes make any attempt at sustained reading very difficult...
...Mayor, who has been campaigning New York City for 24 years, had a far shrewder appreciation than his opponents of the delicate art of abuse. He started the ball rolling by putting the name of Governor Herbert Lehman (backer of his opponent, William O'Dwyer) into the same paragraph with the words "goniff" (Yiddish for thief) and "double-crosser...
...great secret and it has yet to receive official Nazi sanction. Religious News Service distributed two long stories on a very similar plan in 1938, and the Christian Science Monitor ran the plan in detail five days before Mr. Roosevelt's Navy Day speech, with an introductory paragraph reading...