Word: whole
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...will go a long way towards the solution of the professional problem in tennis. It seems inevitable that we are going to have tennis pros just as we have them in golf, and the sooner they are treated sensibly the better it will be for the sport as a whole. More good tennis players will take up teaching the game as soon as they realize that they are not going to be ostracized from the court aristocracy for doing it; and the more good teachers there are the more the game will prosper in this country...
...stockmarket. . . . The cure for such storms is action. . . . No movement to reduce wages. . . . The greatest tool of stability is construction and maintenance work. The improvements and betterments and general cleanup of plants. . . . All of these efforts have one end-to assure employment. . . . A great responsibility rests upon the whole people. I have no desire to preach. I may, however, mention one good old word-work...
...report in 30 minutes. For its discussion on the floor the Speaker allowed the House just three hours. To the debate he did not have to listen, because he turned the chair over to Representative Sloan of Nebraska during the bill's consideration in the Committee of the whole. Opposition to tax reduction came principally from Representatives Rankin of Mississippi, Ramseyer of Iowa, who argued heatedly but vainly for application of the surplus to public debt reduction...
...theme of the picture in short is this: the quibbling couple who have been married, divorced, and married again, have no time for their children, and as a result the oldest daughter, Judie, played by Mary Brian, has the whole tribe on her hands. From then on the entire show is a rapid succession of quarrels, peace gatherings and cocktail parties. The warring couple finally declare truce for good, Judie marries the ever-present family-friend, in the person of Mr. March, and the two take all the children under their wing...
Probably the best crack in the whole picture, at least from a local viewpoint occurs in a conversation between Martin, the friend, and Judie. The former is referring to Judie's father and says, "Yes, I knew him at Harvard. He was one of those graduates that came back to try to coach the team...