Word: choses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Wood is a tennis genius who, almost unbeatable on his best days, can play like a second-rater on his bad days. Allison is a dependable, aggressive player who, though he loses most of his important matches, always works hard and makes his opponent do likewise. If he chose Allison, Captain Wear might not see his team win the Cup but at least it would be a close call. If he chose Wood, and Wood had an off-day against Austin, Captain Wear could be reproached with some justice...
Captain Wear pondered for a whole day. Then he chose Allison. Since England's Fred Perry could be counted on for two singles points, America's Budge for one and the U. S. doubles team of Allison & Van Ryn for another, the crucial match was Allison v. Austin. When the draw was announced, it became clear that Captain Wear would not have to wait long to have his decision tested. The crucial match was the first on the schedule...
...industry to which personal vanity, professional jealousy and creative carte blanche are as indispensable as they are to the cinema, upheavals in personnel are naturally more sudden, more dramatic, and more painful than elsewhere. Hollywood long ago chose "amicable settlement" as an apt phrase to describe the results, whatever these may be, of all such events. Two months ago when Producers Darryl Zanuck and Joseph Schenck took their lively Twentieth Century Pictures away from United Artists to merge with Fox, where Winfield Sheehan has been vice president in charge of production since 1926, it was immediately clear that an amicable...
...greatest pieces of invective known to history, but Catiline's crimes were great: he planned to burn Rome, abolish debt and share the wealth by taking over the property of political antagonists. In the warfare between Caesar and Pompey, Cicero sided first with Pompey, became neutral, chose Pompey again, again became neutral, got on the losing side just before it lost. By that time he had antagonized both camps. He remained prudently true to his Republican convictions while Caesar was in power, was completely hoodwinked by Octavian in the chaotic situation that followed Caesar's assassination...
Comrade Stalin, an Oriental who has taken root behind the Kremlin walls as secretively as any tsar, promptly chose the third alternative and gave it the force of law by his potent fiat. The present Moscow of 3,500,000 Russians squashed into 70 square miles will be expanded, Stalin decreed, into a Moscow of 5,000,000 in 230 square miles. Most of this vast reconstruction was ordered rushed to completion within three years, but seven more years are allotted to finish up and smooth out New Moscow's inevitable kinks...