Word: fulle
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Zweiger's stab at our Sunday laws, I thank God that I live in a State that has the decency to at least observe one day out of the week. We do not have shows, roadhouses and dance-halls going at full swing as in Ohio. Our citizens have a proper regard for the Sabbath. . . . It was in the State of Ohio and the City of Cincinnati that I first saw women drinking in public and I have never yet seen this in West Virginia...
...local Government inspector, J. M. Carey, approached, hat in hand, spoke in low voice to the Premier. The mine was full of poisonous gasses. Rescue work, even in gas masks, was too dangerous. The inspector had ordered that no one should go down in the mine until the fumes of explosion should be pumped away by the electric ventilators. Any other course was madness, said Inspector Carey, but the wives and families of the entrapped men were getting restless. He could not conscientiously advise the Premier to remain with his wife in that vicinity...
...without ever being very clearly defined, between the purely advisory and the actually administrative. The fluctuation has followed naturally from the changing strength of character in successive classes. Thus, in 1924 the council was so unrepresentative and therefore weak that it was obliged to resign. Last week, a council, full of conviction and therefor strong, resigned by its own choice to force the whole issue of Princeton self-government...
Girls of Emory University at Atlanta, Ga., cringed. "... Simple hell cats with muddy minds." The Methodist revivalist was roaring at them. Outside it was full spring. Gay flowers beckoned to be plucked for coat lapels; breezes would blow at hair loosed in vernal gayety. But the girls, and boys, of Emory, sat awed as Dr. Clovis Chapel of Memphis continued to castigate: "The average girl of 17 would not greatly object to appearing nude if she had any excuse to do so. ... Modesty has already burst; it is dead. The average girl of today is like the moth fluttering around...
...Glueck then explained that although criminological literature is full of statements as to the success and failure of former inmates of prisons, it is a matter of record that there is hardly one scientific study to support the estimates of success and failure...