Word: section
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...artist with life are conspicuously Alpine. He looks upon the mortal world from a great height, but tolerantly. His vision is embracing, a little supercilious, but not antagonistic. At times, permitting himself a specialization of curiosity, he draws his trusty telescope and applies its concentrated vision to a limited section of the horizon. An Arnold Bennett may contrive to narrow the scope of his mundane investigation to the intensive inspection of one unsavory Soho basement. Joseph Conrad, his seaman's vision scorning the intervention of the spyglass, embraces the entire Mediterranean in a searching survey. Frank Swinnerton, perched...
Winifred Lenihan, leading lady in Bernard Shaw's Saint Joan: "On the front page of its Sunday Theatre Section, the New York Tribune published a large caricature of me, ignorantly referred to me as Florence Lennihan...
...Horace G. Knowles, former U. S. Minister to Rumania, counsel for the Chester group, known as the Ottoman-American Development Company, stated that no official notice had been received from the Turkish Government and he believed that only one section had been lost to American interests...
...Shameen (foreign section of Canton), were five British gunboats, two French and one Portuguese warships. French bluejackets were landed and occupied the post office without resistance. The men were landed there to thwart Dr. Sun in case he decided to resort to force and to protect the foreign population...
...Wilson reelected): "The West has indeed spoken, and nothing better has happened in a generation than this shifting of the political balance to a section which still maintains the old ideals of the Republic, which is not owned by its pocketbook, and which has never made a god of its bank account. To elect a President without the sordid assistance of New York, and the hardly less sordid assistance of Illi- nois, would be a double triumph. Even to lose the Presidency by a small margin in such circumstances would be a moral victory that Mr. Wilson could always remember...