Word: presents
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...affect him no more than a cur in the gutter snapping at a passing mastiff. I have long since ceased to buy your so-called "magazine," but from the copies I see now and then in libraries and elsewhere I gather that a cheaply-sensational attitude is its present pose. I am, gentlemen, your obedient servant...
Sirs: Packed as the present is with events of absorbing interest, so is TIME, favorite publication of the undersigned. Enjoyed especially your notes in the issue of March 18 concerning Grand National at Aintree, England. Among other horse-enthusiasts off to England is Horatio C. Ford of South Euclid, Ohio, president of the two-year-old Aintree Club of the same address on the outskirts of Greater Cleveland. Horses from Cleveland's Aintree follow trails near, through and beyond beautiful Chagrin Valley, long-hunted country of the Fifth City's riders, past homes of Ambassador Herrick, newly-appointed...
...room went Editor Ray Long of William Randolph Hearst's Cosmopolitan; Joseph Anthony of the Cosmopolitan Book Co.; Arthur S. Draper, an editor of the New York Herald Tribune. Reporters were held at arm's length by a hotel detective. Good Friend Frank Waterman Stearns was present as a smiling but non-communicative buffer. One man. seeking an audience but turned away, sent up by a waiter to the Coolidge suite a silver salt shaker but no explanation. Mr. Coolidge was puzzled...
...prime joke this would have been, had not other students of Prohibition, perhaps less profound than Senator Borah but with better memories, recalled that on May 16, 1921, the Supreme Court had decided this exact point−and decided it solidly against Senator Borah's present interpretation. In the case of Dillon v. Gloss, Mr. Justice Van Devanter delivered the unanimous opinion of the court...
...Commerce grants prime importance in the community. President Clement Melville Keys, who has every one of his fingers in some aviation pie or other, and Vice President C. Roy Keys, his brother, have made Curtiss Aeroplane & Motor one of the largest self-contained units of the industry. Almost all present aircraft concerns make only planes, buy their motors elsewhere. Curtiss manufactures motors as well as ships. Curtiss builds Hawks, Falcons, Condors and Fledglings, all military planes which can be modified for transports and gadabouts. In motors it builds the powerful Challenger and Chieftain, both air-cooled, and the Conqueror...