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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In printing, a short line of small-sized type between two longer lines of larger displayed type.
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First off, let me say how utterly hilarious it is that the title of this post is the catch-line of the Sci-Fi Channel.
Archive 2007-09-01 2007
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First off, let me say how utterly hilarious it is that the title of this post is the catch-line of the Sci-Fi Channel.
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First off, let me say how utterly hilarious it is that the title of this post is the catch-line of the Sci-Fi Channel.
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Some correspondents even run a catch-line in red ink at the top of the page, but these yellow journal "scare-heads" fall short with the average business proposition.
Business Correspondence Anonymous
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And so the average man is not influenced so much by a bold catch-line in his letters as by the paragraphs that follow.
Business Correspondence Anonymous
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The catch-line of itself sells no goods and to be effective it must be followed by trip-hammer arguments.
Business Correspondence Anonymous
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The correspondent may use a catch-line, just as the barker at a side show uses a megaphone -- the noise attracts a crowd but it does not sell the tickets.
Business Correspondence Anonymous
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But as Mrs Aubrey Denison wrote and said she should like to forgive him for his disgraceful conduct before he went away, he sent the Scotch foreman of the _Trumpet-Call_ to explain to her that the catch-line of an auctioneer's advertisement had been 'dropped' on the same galley as the mortuary notice, and overlooked when the forme was locked.
Rídan The Devil And Other Stories 1899 Louis Becke 1884
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His opinion was sought for on every matter of public interest, and whatever happened to him in particular was considered good for at least half a column of copy, with his name as a catch-line at the top.
Complete Letters of Mark Twain Mark Twain 1872
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His opinion was sought for on every matter of public interest, and whatever happened to him in particular was considered good for at least half a column of copy, with his name as a catch-line at the top.
Mark Twain's Letters — Volume 5 (1901-1906) Mark Twain 1872
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