Word: fulle
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Captain Charles W. R. Knight, British ornithologist. Captain Knight had been making money in the U. S. with a cinema-and-lecture on eagles. Scrutinizing a U. S. coin he had observed that the bald-headed or American eagle depicted thereon was "just taking off instead of in full flight...
Through choppy Mediterranean seas dashed the British battleships Warspite and Valiant, last week, steaming full speed ahead from the Empire naval base at Malta toward the Egyptian ports of Alexandria and Port Said. Beside the ponderous battleships, paced three swift cruisers, keen Empire dogs of war. Smoke belched. Spume flew. Meanwhile a good old fashioned ultimatum was being cabled by the potent Government of His Britannic Majesty to the puny Egyptian Cabinet of puppet King Fuad...
...effect of his sombre simple garb upon King Amanullah, who for four months has been feted by Presidents in sleek tail coats and Monarchs attired as field marshals, must indeed have been impressive. Darting a quick glance about the station, His Majesty saw not a single silk hat or full dress uniform. Behind the President were grouped several Commissars (Ministers) clad as simply as he, and behind them, filling the station square, stood rank upon rank of Soviet infantry and a detachment of Red Cossack cavalry. President Kalinin, stepping forward and extending his hand, said briefly in Russian: "In behalf...
When 200,000 peasants finally streamed into small Alba Julia, Pied Piper Juliu Maniu told them to make a hearty supper upon food which they had brought, said that although the hotels were full the streets were theirs to sleep upon, and finally instructed that all should be up betimes at 5 a. m. Docile, the peasants ate, slept, rose and assembled under the supervision of their priests to take the following great pious oath: "We swear to the great and good God to fight a righteous fight against the Government which is a plague to the country and which...
Ernest Bloch's symphony Israel, as played last week by the Cleveland Orchestra in Manhattan, was full of the woes of "a pious and sinful people." Full of fear of Jehovah, despair of stricken souls, anguished groping for light, the music was illustrated upon the vast stage by figures in tan and black flowing robes. Men of the priestly order (among them Dancer Michio Ito), mourning women bearing lighted candles, suppliants in prayer shawls, a pilgrim, the Ba'al Tokea, moved against the austere background of the enormous Wailing Wall of Jerusalem, achieved the spirit of Isaiah crying...