Word: much
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Presidential addresses, outlining speeches, making ponderous platitudes interesting. So well-trained was he in his craft that Mr. Welliver soon could ape the Harding literary style to the complete bewilderment of the White House newsgatherers. He had another duty: to sit in the executive office lobby and amid much blue cigaret smoke converse in low important tones with older Washington correspondents about White House doings. In each "conversation" was planted the germ-idea of a news story and each story reflected credit upon President Harding...
...Already taxes have been restored to a peacetime level. . . . This is progress in the right direction. There is still much more that can be done . . . when revenues show sufficient permanent increase. There is a growing demand for a further reduction in taxes on earned incomes . . . with which I have always been in sympathy as is evidenced by the recommendations the Treasury made to Congress. . . . The Treasury is still of this opinion and will be glad to see these principles [of tax reduction] still further carried into law whenever revenues justify such action...
...Ziegfeld's "Whoopee", which has good music as well and the antics of Eddie Cantor. "Spring Is Here" initiating Glenn Hunter into musical comedy is for connoisseurs the brightest and most engaging of this type of attraction though "Hold Everything", an early season offering of Aarons and Freedley is much more a hit by virtue of the much-played air, "Cream in Your Coffee" and the burlesque clowning of Bert Lahr...
...entire first half the game was to a great extent listless and uninteresting. The "Michigan" players showed promise of gaining their first victory when they scored two safeties giving them a lead of four points which looked good in view of the fact that neither team was showing much offensive power. Sumner Putnam '31 had been downed behind his own line to give the first safety while a blocked kick by F. S. Davis '30 was directly responsible for the other...
...should like to say a few words in defense of this choice. First, I believe that everyone will agree that since its beginnings, the theatre has had for its main object, that of providing entertainment, whether serious or light. The stage has developed much art, but its object has always been entertainment. There has arisen beside the old comedy and tragedy another form of entertainment known as the musical comedy which has invaded the modern stage to such an extent that it is considered by many to be an integral part of the drama. Is it not consistent with...