Kip wrote:
"I suspect they were responding to the same influences: the
advent of a tight, standardized newspaper style; the
"cablese" of foreign dispatches; the "style" used in
telegrams; the clipped language of print advertisements of
the day; and so on. There were plenty of examples at the time
for them to draw from to reach that kind of "less is more"
approach."
I whole-heartedly agree, but would like to add one thing to
the list, writing up case reports for the Pinkertons.
Mark
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