Word: section
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...jackassery. And I may add that my authority for Ingersoll's agnosticism-not atheism- is, in addition to the evidence of his lectures, the statement of his wife, who probably knew more about his opinions and beliefs than does even the infallible vaudeville artist who edits the literary section of TIME. Easily the most unsatisfactory point about TIME is the air of shoulder-chip infallibility which the editors of TIME affect, and not even a belief in God justifies this in a reviewer...
...vacation-bound presidential special crossed South Dakota, the state turned into a 400-mile-long cheering section. Farmers stood in fields of young, ankle-high corn, forgot mortgages and vetoes, cheered. Townspeople gathered at railroad stations; in their hands were hats and flowers; in their hearts were peace and goodwill. Senator Peter Norbeck of South Dakota, long an insurgent, exclaimed, "We will not go into past regrets." Representative Charles A. Christopherson, farm-relief advocate, announced that all doubt concerning a third term had been swept away. The President made no speeches, no promises, receded not an inch from the posi...
...feature of tomorrow's issue of the CRIMSON will be a 12-page pictorial section, including cuts of the Harvard-Yale crews now in training at New London...
Unfortunately your wordy eulogy of the magazine TIME and a copy of the magazine itself appeared together on my desk this morning. I say unfortunately because I read your circular letter first and then opened up to your NATIONAL AFFAIRS section, hoping to see there a brief summary of the more important events of the week, as you say yourself it contains. I learned from it that Mrs. Coolidge likes circuses and graduated from college in '02, and that Governor Smith uses 25% more words expressing his appreciation of the Boy Scouts than does Mr. Coolidge. Not being...
...same day, the one headed west to repair his fortunes, the other in a north and easterly direction to receive the plaudits proper to fame. The President off for his summer vacation in the Black Hills was given a column on the first page of the second section of so sedate and well-balanced a paper as the New York Times, while Colonel Lindberg in his journey up Broadway received all the space, except the unprinted margins, in the first five pages of the same issue...