Word: fulle
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Evanston's Mayor Charles H. Bartlett. Each was going to make a patriotic speech. There was a holiday atmosphere in the air. The parade was following them. There would be a crowd at the gathering place in an Evanston park. The dignitaries paid small attention to passing motors full of citizens with golf clubs, bathing suits, pop bottles, eyeshades, shirt sleeves. It was Independence Day. They were going to make speeches...
Subsequent ceremonies included reading to Corpse Sun a lengthy report as to how his disciples have conquered China. Incense was burned, dirges chanted. A table richly laden with food was placed at the disposal of the Dead-who sleeps in a coffin full...
Elena was the favorite. Guienerve was the largest. Atlantic had won the last ocean race in 1925. A radio from Elena said that she was sailing beam to beam with the Atlantic. Passengers on liners peered at the horizon hoping to see a sail full of wind and salty adventure. Four little schooners-Mohawk, Niña, Pinta, Rofa-had set out from New York to Spain, a week before. They were expected to reach Santander at about the same time as the big ones. Little Niña, impish, came within seeing distance of the Cunarder Aquitania...
...boring and bewildering readers with intimate details of the business and management of newspapers." But it overcame its dislike manfully, brought itself to quote its own sales figures: August 1926, 79,458; May 1928, 105,704. Goaded to fury, the Viscountal Daily Mail flung the Post's figures full in its Ducal face. Screamed the Mail: "In close upon two years, the utmost efforts of the Morning Post have succeeded in adding 26,246 copies to its daily net sales. In the same period the net sales of the Daily Mail have risen by 183,579 copies...
...useful manual, "Gentlemen, Be Seated!" is moreover good reading, not only for its "business," but for its record of minstrelsy since 14th century troubadours. Though the emphasis is of course upon the scions of the American burnt-cork circle, they have not been accorded the full responsibility they have undoubtedly had for weaning an 18th century public away from stage bombast to the extremely humanist drama of today...