"Present-day" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... no photographs nowadays. Only "camera portraits" and "lens impressions." The full face has been abolished. The ideal of the present-day photographer is to eliminate the sitter as far as possible and concentrate on a general cloudy effect. I have in my possession two studies of my Uncle Theodore—one taken in the early 'nineties, the other in the present year. The first shows him, evidently ...
— A Wodehouse Miscellany - Articles & Stories • P. G. Wodehouse
... eddies of the present-day world currents is what has been loosely called the "Woman Movement." The sensitive and vicarious spirit of womanhood has been enlisted for service in behalf of those who have been denied a fair chance, or who are the victims ...
— Leaves of Life - For Daily Inspiration • Margaret Bird Steinmetz
... to be read before all the tomfool peace societies and anti-imperialist societies of the present-day. ...
— Letters to His Children • Theodore Roosevelt
... political ideals both of Cadets and Octobrists were learnt chiefly from England, the study of whose constitutional history had aroused in Russia an enthusiasm hardly intelligible to a present-day Englishman. All three Dumas ... were remarkably friendly to England, and England supplied the staple of the precedents and parallels ...
— Why We Are At War (2nd Edition, revised) • Members of the Oxford Faculty of Modern History
... attractive to us than it would be had Agassiz first interpreted it for us rather than Rousseau or present-day exponents of "the simple life," "back to nature," and "back to the land." It is too often forgotten that no one sins against natural law more grievously than the primitive man or the isolated man in daily contact with non-human nature. Communing with nature ...
— Civics and Health • William H. Allen
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