Word: rising
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Rise of Pro Tennis...
...rise of professional tennis which has been so noticeable for the past two years seems somewhat out of accord with the decline of pro sports in general. We now have two pro tennis players who are considered to be on a par with the cream of the amateur group in Karel Kozeluh, the Czech wonder, and Vincent Richards, formerly of amateur fame in this country. These two recently engaged in a match which according to eye witnesses produced tennis of a far higher brand than the Tilden-Hunter final of the national singles championship held within the last few weeks...
Thus far proceedings had been sufficiently decorous, but now Sir Malcolm Robertson, British Ambassador to Argentina and not a member of the d'Abernon Trade Mission, hove up upon his feet and cried: "Let the price of Argentine meat and wheat rise! Thanks to the work which you are going to give the British workman he will be able to meet these conditions with the extra money which will be put in his pocket...
Diabetes & Raw Starch. Washington's Sanford Morris Rosenthal has found that raw starches cause no permanent rise in the blood sugar of diabetes, whereas cooked starches created as much blood sugar as glucose would. Hence he urged diabetics to eat raw starches...
...decline of detective stories, postures of college radicals, difficulty of censoring silent cinema, cosmopolitan U. S. interior decoration, Manhattan's dead gentility, U. S. bibulous and Prohibited. U. S. "boobisms," name-changing, sentimentality Bernard Shaw's chief charm, U. S. lack of romantic or musical appreciation, social rise of the Southern Negro, exercise unnecessary, emasculation of U. S. actors by Anglicizing, a six-page list of the sex-business in one season's plays, the U. S. "itch for bogus purple," the old U. S. saloons not clubs, an assault on publishers including A. A. Knopf, dancing...