Word: toto
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wasp was little Huey Long. He dictated a succinct reply: "I have the honor to decline your demands in toto." Then he ordered out the Baton Rouge unit of the National Guard and a detachment of highway police, directed them to guard the Capitol and executive mansion "to prevent Cyr from seizing them." Next he hopped into a State automobile and roared off for the capital...
...doubles, Cochet and his partner Jacques ("Toto") Brugnon had less trouble than the score, 6-1, 5-7, 6-3, 8-6, implied against Irish George Patrick Hughes and Charles H. Kingsley, former Oxford team captain, who used to give Perry a rest before his match with Cochet...
...last minute a brilliant red, yellow & blue macaw by the name of Toto slipped from his cage in the stately Georgian garden of Florist John T. Scheepers, flew into Alfred Kottmiller's Japanese garden and began furiously to gobble all the blossoms in sight. There was a brief moment of hysteria in the Wisteria; Toto was returned to his cage; a Navy band assisted by a soprano performed "The Star-Spangled Banner" and New York's Flower Show was declared open...
Largest exhibit of the main floor was the Georgian garden of Florist Scheepers. Here were pink blossoming peach trees, dogwood, lilac and tulips, a brick-lined lily pool, and on the iron trellised porch of a white brick Georgian house with peacock blue blinds, Macaw Toto in his cage. A brilliant example of the art of landscape architecture was not Mr. Scheepers' only contribution to the show. From his greenhouses came two new flowers never before exhibited in the U. S., the Sweet Glad and the Glory...
Senate Leader Watson hopefully predicted the bill would be through Congress in ten days. First the Senate must approve the conference changes in toto; then the House must sanction the flexibility change and the new lumber rate. That the President would sign the bill and try to flex out its imperfections was a firm congressional conviction...