Word: betterment
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that the plan will work out successfully, because it 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...
...deal of satisfaction to tennis fans who have been arguing for a long time as to the relative merits of various professional and amateur players. Those who champion the cause of Karel Kozeluh, king of the professional world, will have an opportunity to see if their choice really is better than Henri Cochet, wizard of the amateur courts, or if, as many will loudly protest, the latter is in a class by himself...
...part of his policy to strengthen U. S. diplomacy in Central and South America, President Hoover made a seven-way shuffle of ministerial posts last week. Three "career" ministers were promoted to better posts: Evan E. Young from the Dominican Republic to Bolivia, Roy Tasco Davis from Costa Rica to Panama, Hans Frederick Arthur Schoenfeld from Bulgaria to Costa Rica. Four career secretaries were advanced to their first full envoyships when Julius Garecke Lay was named Minister to Honduras, Matthew Elting Hanna to Nicaragua, Post Wheeler to Paraguay, Charles Boyd Curtis to Santo Domingo. Known as "bright young men" about...
...Edith Wharton's novel of the game name, Paramount has assembled such a host of stars and near-stars that oven though the theme of the picture revolves around the constant marital bickerings of a rich and sophisticated couple the production can be easily classed among the list of better talkies. Mary Brian, Kay, Francis, Frederick March, Huntley Gordon and Lilian Tashman, not to forget five rampant little children,- all lend their personalities to the show to lift it from the rank of just ordinary movies. The youthful Miss Brian and Mr. March have the leads but the quintet...
...better movies are on the current bill at the University Theatre this week. Ann Harding, in "Her Private Affair", shows how infinitely superior the better stage actresses are to the average movie-trained chit, and completely carries off a difficult part to the satisfaction of this reviewer's not lenient taste...