Word: section
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...opinions which back the issues of his magazine are not formed lightly. I once knew of his traveling miles and spending very nearly a month in order to visit a section of the country about which he was to publish a series of articles, and he insisted on being convinced for himself that the conditions set forth in these articles were actual...
...Thirdly, it should be appreciated that the President and the Secretary of State of the United States have, from the outset, shown opposition to the exclusion clause. Public opinion in the United States, reflected in a great section of the American press, appears sympathetically disposed toward Japan's position...
...press?or a section of it? more truthful, more civilized than politics...
...Another section of the "will" is a bequest made to Mme. Rasimi (well-known Parisienne entrepreneuse and directress of the Ba-ta-Clan Theatre, where Millerand once delivered a famed address) of "a republic entirely done over and entirely renovated and a demolished National Bloc, all of which is to be used as accessories for a new comedy which is destined to change the Ba-ta-Clan into a Washout Palace...
...Heaton still kept going about, preaching "love." Finances weakened, so he began canceling his salary. Most of his parish stuck with him, and more came into his fold. Big battalions were needed to finish him. Enter the Ku Klux Klan. First of all, the Klan presented to the disgruntled section of Heaton's parish a completely equipped meeting room which they were to use until a rival Episcopal Church could be built. Big men in the Klan-bossed state were lined up in the little parish fight. The Bishop, the Searchlight, the Klan -it seemed that Heaton could hold...