Word: selective
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hotel on a sizzling night. We tried to sleep but couldn't do it. ... The air of super-seriousness that marked all our actions was depressing. ... I have come to the conclusion that the best plan for the United States to follow next year is to select a man with a youthful viewpoint, a man possessing international background, to direct the team. ... A man like Frank Hunter or Vinny Richards, for I see no logical objection to a professional ... ; or Dick Williams, if the U. S. L. T. A. insists on an amateur...
...Open" has a special meaning. There are no professionals in the game. Teams for the Open are organized by leaders whose position is a little bit like that of a small boy who has been given a new football. Equipped with money and mounts to outfit their teams, they select crack players for their sides. Thus last week, Greentree had reached the final by beating C. V. ("Sonny") Whitney's Westburys and Winston Guest's Templetons, who won the title last year. The Auroras, with a bye in the draw, had ridden over Stephen ("Laddie") Sanford...
...comply with the collective bargaining requirement of the law and at the same time to keep their plants non-union the motor makers got this provision into their approved code: ''Employers in the industry may exercise their right to select, retain or advance employes on the basis of individual merit, without regard to their membership or nonmembership in any organization." Wrathfully organized labor pointed out that "merit" would be made a cloak behind which manufacturers would discharge union workers. NRA's Labor Advisory Board reluctantly accepted the stipulation, warned that it was no precedent. But other...
...free mulattoes, Marie Leveau saw New Orleans pass from France to the U. S., mingle young U. S. lustiness with exiled French manners and imported Negro superstition. Like other female octoroons, she was trained by her mother for the career of mistress to a rich young planter who would select her at the annual Quadroon Ball held in the Theatre d'Orleans (now a Negro convent) back of the St. Louis Cathedral. The young men fought duels for fresh or famed octoroon mistresses in the garden behind the Cathedral, handy to a priest for shriving, a doctor for first...
...snarling factions. Unless the non-union coal operators voluntarily withdrew their restrictions on collective bargaining, as the steelmasters had already done, General Johnson was ready to kick the company union clause out of their code. Said he: "They'll meet with the devil himself if their workers select him to act for them...