Word: fulle
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Nevertheless, Chauncey Mitchell Depew's was a full life, based on an alert brain, a well-guarded stomach and a useful diaphragm. The diaphragm's usefulness was revealed to him by a schoolmaster at Peekskill, N. Y., his birthplace. The other schoolboys recited their orations. Chauncey would offer original compositions. His master began an oratorical training which was completed at Yale and on the political stump. He declaimed his way into the New York Assembly. On the advice of Commodore Vanderbilt, whose railroads he was to help run for the rest of his life, he renounced politics...
...Gordon brothers, British soldiers, who entered the army on the same day, became full generals on the same day, received the K. C. B. at about the same time, who were authorities on the customs and conditions of India, where they were stationed and where they were famed as the "Gemini Generals...
Identical twins on the contrary are as alike mentally as physically whenever they are brought up together. Psychiatric literature is full of the case histories of identical twins stricken by the same psychoses at the same time. They have the same hallucinations, hear the same voices, suffer from the same delusions. No single instance has been found of one twin going insane while the other remained sane. Sometimes this has been shown to be the result of association, and separation in the ward has brought about changes in the character of the dementia. Would each have gone...
March ended with a madness of trading on all the country's stock exchanges. Of course on the New York Stock Exchange ecstacy was shrillest. There more than 3,000,000 shares had changed ownership on each of the last 16 full (5-hour) trading days of the month. On each of four days last week brokers handled more than 4,000,000 shares. Last Saturday two hours business saw 2,430,920 shares exchanged, a record. During the entire month, 84,987,834 shares were recorded on the tickers as bought and sold, also a record. But records...
Artist Sloan's first notable paintings were those which he made of Manhattan or Philadelphia streets and houses, engrossing not alone because they are energetic paintings full of motion and the suggestion of sound, but also because the scenes which they depict are now vanished. In these paintings-The Rathskeller, Philadelphia, Scrubwomen in the Old Astor Library, John Butler Yeats at Petitpas, The City from Greenwich-the figures have the frayed excitement, or the energetic grief that really appears in the faces of city people. Later, small, sparrowlike John Sloan left the city and painted in rock-bound Gloucester...