Word: portion
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...really mean "in California," not Los Angeles or Pasadena, but up and down this state, which is over 1,000 miles long and the greater portion of which is north of the Tehachapi Mountains...
...Black Mass," as this rite is often termed, is designed to attain utter blasphemy by burlesquing the Eucharist. The usual procedure is to steal a portion of the consecrated bread during a mass celebrated in the ordinary way. A mock priest, robed in black, holding the cross upside down in his left hand, then performs backward the usual ceremony. The chalice is first filled with wine and then with water. The mock priest, symbolizing Satan, then eats the bread and tramples on the cross. When several persons participate, a general orgy usually follows. Louis XIV, when he celebrated the Black...
...Episodes such as those which have marked the course of stock prices and so-called Wall Street sentiment . . . constitute a generally harmful nuisance. They also constitute a reflection on the steadfastness and sobriety of a portion of the community. . . . The only circumstances under which, in a country with the resources, the resiliency and the basic elements of ours, a temporary descent into the cyclone cellar becomes warranted are-leaving aside grave foreign complications- either manifestations of stark and persistent overproduction or overtrading, the advent of a major credit disturbance, or acute monetary stringency. None of these circumstances exists today...
Because the news standards of a large portion of the metropolitan press utterly fails to jibe with the taste of America's upper middle class, criticism and correction has been directed at journalism with a good deal more vehemence than effect. There have been many picturesque epithets applied to the newspapers. "The putrid press," "the pornographs," "the yellow dogs" are exemplary examples. For remedies, suppression and censoring have been the least acceptable although the most tangible and the most often called for. Plans for reform from within have emanated from educated and conservative quarters but have been lacking in provision...
...etiquet of cutting is: Dealer places cards before the player on his right, who lifts off a top portion of the pack, placing it toward Dealer, who places the lower portion...