Word: whole
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that of Dan Bover and Ann Duane, the slim and lovely toast of New York. Bover's unquenchable love of the sea, never satisfied except when he strides the quarterdeck of his ship, and his tortuous pursuit of an elusive but understanding Ann, provide the twin plots underlying the whole structure of the novel...
...novel feature of the new Dartmouth indoor hockey rink, under construction at the present time, is the lettering "Dartmouth College" on the roof, to be a lofty guide for aeroplanes. The letters are to be about 20 feet in height and to extend the whole length of the building...
...Comrade Litvinov's real reply to Statesman Stimson came not by note, but in a gala speech before the Soviet central executive committee, to which he invited the whole Moscow diplomatic corps. Such a chance to make game of Messrs. Hoover and Stimson, whose Gibson had humiliated him last spring, might not soon come again, and Comrade Litvinov made the most of it. Stomachs quaked with mirth as he told in droll fashion how Statesman Stimson had called on all the 53 Kellogg Treaty nations to second his note, and concluded amid guffaws: ''I have just received...
...than he had been as a Dauphin; but when his impatient son Louis (he led two rebellions against his father) came to the throne, at 38, he found France still disunited, Paris disloyal, the English threatening, and such powerful nobles as the Duke of Burgundy openly his enemies. The whole kingdom was exhausted by the Hundred Years' War. Fertile regions were wastelands; brigandage, starvation, lawlessness were everywhere...
...allowed, is ruled by the ranking officer with the severe discipline, the stiff etiquette, of the regular army. To pass the time the prisoners write novels, play soundless music on a plank painted like the keyboard of a piano, compose invisible petitions on imaginary typewriters. Amateur theatricals turn the whole camp into a burrow of homosexuality. When the Russian Revolution and the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk come, the prisoners plan an escape en masse, nearly run into a massacre, are thankful to get back to their safe prison again. As the Revolution and counterrevolution roll across the country, the prison...