Word: fulle
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Thus finding myself in the full clutch of circumstance, though verified by all human experience, a bitter taunt comes to mind and seems justified. It frets my soul to think that the Yanks, a nation far removed and by no means of the first rank, who with invincible logic found themselves in 1914-1918 too proud to fight, should with homely eloquence in 1927 find themselves too proud to learn to read and write...
...therefore, request Your Majesty to receive him favorably and to commend him to the officials of the Dominion of Canada in order that full credence may be given to what he shall say on the part of the United States of America...
...Mayor O'Keefe of New Orleans called upon the Federal Government to "assume full responsibility" to "make immediate appropriations...
...great, the irrepressible Editor Daudet reacted in a manner far different. He might have called a meeting of the French Royalists who are as strong as or stronger than the Communists. Instead, he took pen and concocted for L'Action Française a leading article so full of sly, telling digs at personalities in the Government, so meaty with tidbits of Daudeterie, that Paris, figuratively speaking, exploded with forgiving mirth...
...wildly a fortnight ago. So violently did the earth tremble that many a seismograph was jarred out of commission. One of the severest shocks in years had occurred and scientists pictured one of history's worst disasters in its wake. That evening they expected to find the press full of hideous headlines-cities razed, thousands killed, islands submerged, raging fires...