Word: whole
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Well, you should know," answered the skipper of the Shawnee. The boat turned on her searchlight and signalled the Coast Guard cutter Gresham to approach. The Shawnee plowed on, pumping out the water that the waves poured in through the shell holes. For a whole day Coast Guard vessels dogged her course...
...ominous bird alighted above the battle on the edge of the Press Gallery. An eager correspondent snatched at it. The bird soared from his grasp leaving in his hand a single large tail feather. Settling on the architrave above a doorway, the ominous pigeon cooed and looked down the whole day long upon the high, industrial tariff army of Generalissimo Reed Smoot (Utah) and the low, consumer tariff army of Field Marshal Furnifold McLendel Simmons (North Carolina...
...bold to ask Ina Claire whether "anything had happened," and Miss Claire, who has spent her respite quarreling with Henry Daniel about opening a window, answers laconically, "Nothing unusual." You might lift her phrase from its context and apply it as criticism to the picture as a whole but only, in fairness, if you excluded the suavity of the tone with which it is uttered and the unfailing gaiety that gives it point. Director Marshall Neilan does a good job transposing stage values to the screen. Actress Claire plays with a deftness perfected during the weeks when she was doing...
...University team will not practice today, the whole squad having been invited by Boston College to see the B. C. Catholic University game at Fenway. Park. Coaches Horween, Dunne, Hubbard, and Farrell, H. W. Clark, Director of Athletics W. J. Bingham and Manager Lage are all going to Dartmouth to see the Green tackle Norwich, while Coaches Casey, Knox, and Kennard are traveling to West Point to scout the Army--B. U. clash...
...whole it is a good thing that he should be well rounded; at least, he will now be able to roll smoothly and comfortably through life. If he was born into the world with normal interests and average abilities, if his main ambition is to obtain a good job, settle down, pay his bills, and in other ways become a respectable member of the community, college will have given him the proper equipment. His concentration will have given him sufficient knowledge and training to hold his job; his distribution will have endowed him with certain stimulating outside interests to serve...