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Word: fulle (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...knows, a certain amount of spirited celebration goes on between Christmas and New Year's Day. In New York City alone, 46 deaths due to alcoholism were reported during the holidays this year; a proportionate number of deaths occurred throughout the land; the alcoholic wards of hospitals were full. Then on Jan. 1, the new Government formula for denaturing industrial ethyl alcohol went into effect. It doubles the amount of poison which manufacturers are required to use.* The old argument of whether or not the Government has the right to use poison to enforce the Prohibition law raged...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Poison | 1/10/1927 | See Source »

...come home twice that day from work to give her food. He was expecting the doctor, and hearing a knock on the door he started forward. The sound of more than one pair of boots on the porch made him look out of the window. His yard was full of men. In long white robes they writhed with dismal laughter in the moonlight. They called to him "Come out, Simon." 'My wife's sick," he shouted through the window. A volley of revolver bullets spattered against the front door. Six men in white robes came after the bullets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LYNCHING: In Toombs | 1/10/1927 | See Source »

...Negro was visited a night later. Hooded men tied his hands and feet together; where his hands and feet came to a point behind his back they fastened another rope, took a turn around the rear axle of an automobile and started off at full speed down the road. The dragged body was torn beyond recognition. He had been accused of stealing turnip seed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LYNCHING: In Toombs | 1/10/1927 | See Source »

Colorado. Governor-elect William H. Adams, onetime cowboy, announced that he would not wear full dress at his inaugural ball on Jan. 11. His friends explained that he was afraid of catching his spurs in the coattails. "I never compromise with principle," said Mr. Adams, who is pleased to wear his cowpunching regalia whenever possible. "I never have worn full dress, and I never will, if it's what I think...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Governors | 1/10/1927 | See Source »

...hardly want to begin to put on dog* at my age." Governor Dillon compromised to the extent of putting on semi-"dog." A full dress suit, as Emily Post would confess in higher language, is considered full...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Governors | 1/10/1927 | See Source »

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