Word: sections
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Times represents a section of opinion almost as favorable to any understanding with Germany as any in Great Britain. That opinion is now alienated. ... To expel a Times correspondent amounts almost to a diplomatic incident," thundered the News Chronicle. A spokesman of the Times said with icy dignity: "We are not going to send a man to Berlin at dictation of the Nazis. Unless the Germans suffer an attack of sense within the next few days and keep Ebbutt, we shall leave the Berlin post vacant...
...most of ten years the best of many columns in Manhattan, on Manhattan, for Manhattan has been "Notes and Comment," which leads off The New Yorker's "Talk of the Town" section. Last week's column, best & saddest of them all, was devoted to Manhattan's most popular mythical character, the top-hatted dandy (portrayed, in the full pride of youth, by Artist Rea Irvin) who on the first cover of The New Yorker, and every year on its anniversary issue in mid-February stares through his monocle at a butterfly...
...first wife died during a Cesarean operation, unwittingly disagreed with Roman Catholic canons. In accordance with canon law young Dr. John Corbit who had charge of Mary Bocassini's case, should, if necessary to save the child's life and soul, have delivered the child by Cesarean section. This would inevitably have caused the death of the mother and jeopardized young Dr. Corbit's promising career...
...other hand, if Dr. Corbit waited for Mary Bocassini to die, the only way to deliver the baby would still be by Cesarean section. This introduced a problem in Common Law. Cutting her body post mortem might be construed as an autopsy. And Common Law forbids autopsy without the consent of the nearest surviving kin. Her husband objected...
...Statue of Liberty presented by France to the U. S. in 1886. Hitherto seen chiefly by bargemen on the Seine, the replica of Liberty, standing where it has stood since 1889, now is an unexpected feature of a visit to the Exposition's Colonial Section. Sturdy French and middle-class visitors generally had about decided last week that the place to go for hearty food and sound wines was the Brasserie des Metiers. Also crowded were the Midway joints for Alsatian sauerkraut. Even so the majority of Europeans were bringing their own lunches and dinners to the Exposition last...