Word: fulle
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sale at $8 an ounce, in "smoke parlors" operated by the government, whereas the government imports tin drug from China for less than $1 an ounce. During 1925 almost $300 000 was spent by the government in building new and more luxurious "smoke parlors" which are now reported in full blast. The natives, accustomed to chandu, apparently feel no more than a slight "head" on the day following an evening of indulgence...
...gentleman of 40, full-fleshed and well-garmented, wrote his cheque in London last week for ?5,000 ($24,300), passed it over to a firm of caterers, and received from them a contract to furnish him with two meals a day for the rest of his life but never to reveal his name, even after his death...
...total enrollment. of the 86 specimen institutions was 253,630 full time students. In 1926 it was 265,564-an increase of 138 students per college...
Clarence Mackay, telegraph lord: "I got last week a first glimpse of my granddaughter, Mary Ellin Berlin, aged eight weeks, but only in a full front page photograph in the New York Daily Mirror, tabloid. As everyone knows, I disowned my daughter Ellin when she married Irving Berlin, songwriter, and I have also refused to visit the baby or let the baby visit me. The child, which was photographed asleep, looks like any dark, fat, healthy baby. People say this is the first time any baby's picture has occupied the entire front page of a newspaper...
...Seconds 5 to 4. Wood, the centre, is the star of the team for the second year. Captain Batchelder, rugged football star, is strong on the defense. Milton's team is regarded as one of the best the school has over had and the Freshmen will have their hands full keeping up the spotless record gained by Freshman sextets for the last three years. The only game not won by the Freshmen in that time was at Milton two years ago, when the school boys battled Captain Saltonstall's team...