Word: whole
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...whole move is reported to be indirectly the work of young business men who complained about the late hours of metropolitan night life. Dancing on a crowded floor through the wee small hours of the morning may prepare one for the intricacy of the subway rush, but the vim, vigor, and vitality necessary to close on a million dollar contract with a Chicago potentate comes by a slightly different route. As for the girls, they are on record as merely saying...
...some, the advent of Miss Dorothy Gish to the legitimate stage is no doubt a great event. We would not go quite so far as to say that. But she does give what is on the whole a good performance. The blot on her scutcheon is that in spite of her acting she gives the impression of being about eight years older than the score the play calls...
Finally, whatever the plans of the Trustees to allow scholars to go to other institutions, it is untrue to speak of "two hundred Rhodes Scholars" as if all were Americans. According to the last report, "the number of Scholars regularly in residence for either the whole or some part of the academic year 1927-1928 was 187-viz., 94 from the British Empire and 93 from the United States of America." The so-called Americanization of Oxford is not entirely the fault of the Rhodes Scholars since at the time of their creation, few other Americans went there...
George Ade, U. S. funnyman (Fables in Slang, The Sultan of Sulu, etc.) touring the world, reached Manila last week just as the aged Sultan of Sulu came to town. Said the Sultan of Sulu: "I don't know him." Said Author Ade: "Shucks, I wrote a whole musical comedy about him without an introduction. I pictured the Sultan as endowed with a remarkable sense of humor...
...result of the whole affair seemed to be just a lot more whacking good publicity for The Cradle of the Deep and for Simon & Schuster as whopper-publishers, to whom any budding whopperist would do well to take his (her) manuscript...