Word: fulle
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...style and his accurate portrayal of a social order, Mr. Young on the other hand can be accused of tiring the reader at many times during the book with repetition of scenes which add little to the final affect and make what should be a long short story a full sized novel. The characterization is all indirect and is best in the presentation of the Major's two maiden sisters, who command at the same time the reader's respect and his pity...
Aboard the Harvard Special, Albany, N. Y., Nov. 7--Hauled over the Berkshires by two puffing locomotives, fore and aft, Harvard's varsity football squad, with its full complement of variegated retainers and a score of Boston newspapermen, paused for ten minutes here late this evening, bound for Ann Arbor, Michigan, on the Crimson's first quest for a big ten scalp on the latter's own battleground...
These advertisements were in all probability printed merely as jokes and nothing more but the stimulus that prompted them was considerably deeper than these externals show. The law went into effect ten years ago, when the students of average college ago today were too young to appreciate its full meaning. Yet, the theory that those who never drank liquor could be educated not to want it has apparently been shattered, either because the education on this subject has been none too good or because the taste for liquor cannot be destroyed...
...would not have spoken in Tammany Hall just one week after my nomination for the Presidency. But I had my strongest inclination to speak in Tammany Hall at just that very time. I had been identified with Tammany Hall for a quarter of a century. I always had its full and loyal support. I felt that in my hour of great success my place was among my friends...
...been thoroughly pre-empted and sown. The comparison between lightweight crews and football teams is slightly tenuous, inasmuch as physical limitations are more definitely prescribed in crew than in football. Lack of weight or height precludes the possibility of pulling a sweep on the varsity crew, whereas football is full of notable exceptions where weight has given way to courage and power to technique...