Word: fulle
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dwelt upon at such great length that they leave a bad taste. I do not have a great deal of time for reading and prefer to devote that time to magazines on the order of World's Work, Golden Book and the National Geographic, in which one receives full value for time spent on them. C. F. CLARK...
...This method of communication would actually be surer, as well as more genteel, than a direct message, for I am by no means as sure that he reads all my letters as that he reads all of TIME. . . . I'm going to be wholly frank with you, in full confidence that you will not take advantage of a fellow's straightforwardness. I intend, if all else fails, to send you five dollars before Jan. 1. That's how desperate I am. ROSCOE MACY...
...Well, it is a book, and there is a lot of it, but it is very plain that the author doesn't know what he is talking about. It is full of slurs and snarls based on the internal consciousness of Rupert Hughes, and expressions of the way Hughes would have acted. "I found 297 statements in the book which are absolutely false; 111 which are extremely doubtful, and 165 paragraphs in which Hughes discusses a character which has never before been discovered as the evil genius behind Washington. That is Sally Fairfax. In fact, the book is written...
This is not the first time that Louisville has cried "mad dog." Last autumn, an ecstatic writer of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch wrote: "Once Kentucky had charm and individuality. Now it is hard to distinguish it from Kansas. The hills are full of antievolutionists, prohibitionists and reformers, and the Ku Klux Klan's fiery crosses burn under the walls of its abandoned distilleries. . . ." Enraged, fuming, two-fisted Governor W. J. Fields telegraphed the St. Louis paper: "Your vicious and unwarranted editorial attack upon Kentucky . . . indicates that you are either a liar or a fool, and I am inclined...
They were Mennonites, religious farmer-folk, from Canada. There were 81 men, a sturdy lot, many prematurely old, all wearing flowing beards, shovel hats, ecclesiastic long coats. Ninety-five women, plump, strong, wore long, full skirts, bright-colored shawls. There were 38 children. All spoke German, among themselves...