Word: wholeness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years Sam Goldwyn his had fantastic stories of his illiteracy publicized because that publicity was good. For just as many years Hollywood as a whole has put its tongue in its rouged check and told the world how mad and delirious it was. And in the Spewacks' play, "Boy Meets Girl," it had a ready-made chance to do it again...
...explanation of young Bertram's new-found vigor is that buried beneath a typically complicated plot is a subtle lampoon at Sir Oswald Mosely, and indirectly at Fascism as a whole. Mr. Wodehouse, is too good an author, and possibly too clever a propagandist, ever to let his satire become oppressive, but he has given Bertie repeated opportunities to "tick off" Spode, totalitarian leader, in the strongest terms the lackadaisical hero has ever used...
That material appears to have arrived in the 1942 crop. It is doubtful if there are any future All-Americans under Skip Stahley's wing, but the A squad is showing remarkable ability as a whole in practice sessions...
...only the company or industry affected, but the whole economic system suffers from the bludgeoning effect of fixed maturities falling due during depressions, and the freezing of capital due to defaults. Even in industries where defaults do not occur, fixed charges exercise a downward leverage on public purchasing power, a leverage that affects not only dividends but wages...
...timidity of business as a whole appeared best in two broad indices, the stockmarket and the volume of commercial loans. Last week the market rebounded vigorously on the news that Czechoslovakia would give in to Hitler. In two days the Dow-Jones industrial averages jumped from 134.1 to 139.2. Then came the breakdown in negotiations, and traders pulled in their necks. The news came after Eastern exchanges were closed and dumping hit the San Francisco Exchange with a rush...