Word: fulle
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Soon all delegates were busy plowing through 500,000 wards of research material provided by the League Secretariat. No delegate has any power to act for his Government. All are met for full and frank discussion...
Safe Blowing. The afternoon was lengthening and employes of the Bank of England were preparing to dash home for a spot of tea, when suddenly they beheld the street full of Metropolitan policemen, hastening resolutely toward the Arcos Building. Throwing a cordon about it, they rushed the open door, occupied the whole building in a twinkling; warned screaming typists and frightened clerks not to touch or attempt to destroy any paper, book or document, herded the women into one large room, the men into another...
...type have driven hordes of people to the comforting refuge of the tabloids." This battle cry of tabloids was recently advanced by one of Bernarr Macfadden's subordinates on the New York Evening Graphic. Whether tabloids are a "comforting refuge" is questionable, but the fact remains that the full-sized newspapers have taken on an alarming bulk since the World War. They are not ashamed of their bulk-it represents increasing advertising revenue and new features; it grows bigger every day; it does not seem to fear the tabloid cry. Daily editions of 40, 48 and 56 pages...
...Berlin, Captain Schneider, bold keeper of the Zoo, with a bucket in one hand, approached a matronly lioness named "Italy," squeezed rhythmically, left her cage with his bucket half full of lioness milk...
...Guild this month, the poem, 4,000 lines long, begins and ends with small Isolt of Brittany, whose hands are made to seem more fabulously white than ever set off against the shadowed course of events at a frowning castle across the channel in Cornwall. There Tristram, "orgulous and full of fate," is discovered lamenting the irony of the wedding he has blindly arranged for his gaunt-armed Uncle Mark, a "man-shaped goat" with a salacious eye. Having awakened late to its meaning for him, Tristram has a name upon his lips that becomes a cry, a despairing exultation...