Word: sections
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Stumping through his own part of the continent-Kansas, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico-Nominee Robinson last week assaulted Intolerance, leading issue in that section. He flayed "a lot of women with short skirts and long necks" for the Whispering Campaign. He cried: "Neither the Republican nor the Demo cratic platform declares in favor of Prohibition." He said: "Senator Curtis and I are dry - nobody knows how dry we are!" Also, he mixed with Editor William Allen White of the Emporia, Kan., Gazette, in an argument of the kind that is thoroughly enjoyed in a country of long adjectives...
...change in the plans, which Mr. Rockefeller promptly adopted. She hoped she would see him at the Governor's Ball. But some other necessity in his vast philanthropic domain recalled Mr. Rockefeller to New York. Lady Astor moved on through the State, marvelling that she had never seen that section of it before. Richmond, where she used to live, is only 40 miles from Williamsburg. But, she explained, "there were no roads in those days...
...Admired by many an editor, but inaccessible because he draws only for the New York Times, is adroit Cartoonist Edwin Marcus. Only on Sundays does the fatherly Times condescend to publish "features." Cartoonist Marcus regularly does portraits for the theatrical section and cartoons on leading topics in season. He is one of the few living cartoonists who was born and raised in Manhattan. His most famed compositions were made during the War?"The Road to Yesterday" (War dragging Europe back to Barbarism) and "Damn the torpedoes?go ahead" (quoting Admiral Farragut at Mobile Bay). His "pals" are Cartoonist Cliff Sterrett...
...first place, to students from schools where the honor system in any of its various shapes may have held sway, it will doubtless seem strange, and at first unpleasant, that at Harvard all tests above the rank of "section quizzes" are supervised by proctors appointed by the College Office. Their duties are two-fold; not only to see that students do not employ dishonest methods but also to distribute blue books and papers, collect them at the close of the period, sort and check them, and in general take charge of the conduct of the examination. They are not present...
...port. It is a matter of history and nobody has safely denied it, that the great immigrant population of this country did its full share to build it up, and certainly the great Scandinavian and German immigration to the Northwest was a powerful factor in the upbuilding of this section of the country...