Word: fulle
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...CRIMSON candidate serves no apprenticeship of disagreeable routine. He has no soiled laundry to count, no water to carry. He starts his competition Tuesday night, and Wednesday morning he is a full-fledged reporter. The writer, when he had been a candidate for the CRIMSON less than 24 hours was interviewing George M. Cohan in his dressing-room in a Boston theatre. And Mr. Cohan had no idea that he wasn't a veteran of many such interviews. Or if he did, he politely made no comment about...
...Experts. Professor Seligman agreed to make the study provided that he had entire liberty of inquiry and judgment and that after gathering his data there be no censorship of his conclusions. Also, he wished his conclusions published in full.† As all scholars who deal with General Motors know, the corporation hampers no honest research. Professor Seligman began...
...account for the explosion in Pittsburgh of a gas storage tank said to be the largest in the world. Supposedly, it was empty; workmen were repairing its top. Suddenly, unaccountably, the tank, capable of holding 5,000,000 cu. ft. of gas, blew up. It caused two lesser (and full) gas tanks to explode; it blew buildings apart; it killed some two dozen people, injured several hundred...
...London, Sir Thomas Beecham, as full of musical energy and notions as his father's factory was of pills, announced last week the foundation of an Imperial League of Opera. His new scheme calls for 120,000 subscriptions of $2.50 annually to provide for an estimated deficit of $300,000; seats for $1.40; a six months' season in London, the rest of the year to be divided among Liverpool, Manchester, Leeds, Birmingham, Edinburgh, Glasgow; the company to be organized from such British singers as John McCormack, Edward Johnson, Alfred Piccaver, Joseph Hislop, Florence Austral and Eva Turner...
...life trickled on in Avarice House. Emily would walk through the halls counting the furniture that would be hers, when her mother died. Mrs. Fletcher would tighten her lips and help the cook to scrub the floors and bake the bread. The old invalid would lie upstairs, her mind full of a thin despair and a narrow, terrible enmity. At last, one afternoon, Emily came in to find her grandmother dead. Whether her mother had found the medicine which Mrs. Elliot had expected her to provide, could not be told. Perhaps she had discovered some drug to still the anger...