Word: fulle
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...then $250,000 that brought back his losses and put him way ahead. "I'm strong for honest ballyhoo, but you can't treat them all alike. Don't let them lose you and don't let them rile you. I know-I was a full-fledged long-pants travelling salesman when I was thirteen." A few years ago he bought a summer house to spend the winter in at Pasadena but got bored there, heard Santa Catalina Island was for sale and bought the whole place...
Inspector Hannen (Edward Ellis) faced all these dilemmas, together with a car full of yelping women, emotional Italians, contradictory evidence. He kept everyone there, including the corpse of Stock-broker Edward Tracy (Jack Lee), which sat upright in grisly electrified rigidity and a Panama hat throughout most of the play. Inspector Hannen questioned the late Mr. Tracy's lovely wife (Dorothy Peterson) and his partner (Edward Pawley), who was also Mrs. Tracy's lover. After the dark murder of a clerk (J. Hammond Dailey) in the firm of the deceased, the Inspector ordered the motorman to retrace...
Brookie and Frances led a good life. They knew everybody, they went everywhere; to the Rothschilds' in France, to the Duke of Edinburgh's, to see the Queen in London. At Warwick they kept the castle full of relations and bigwigs, gave sumptuous parties, showed visitors a little elephant that roamed in the house, an ant bear that slept with the Countess...
Some conclusions of her long, full life (she is now 67) include: "I prefer their [moderns'] frankness to the old hypocrisy. . . . New York did not impress me. . . . [Lily Langtry was] the most beautiful woman I have ever seen. . . . I cannot pretend to be a judge of my own beauty . . . . When 'they' write my obituary notice, it should be the record of a woman who feverishly designed many things for the betterment of human lives. . . . I regret the passing of the horse...
...University squad possessed a fund of power and promising material, but the sustained drive, so essential for success in the series of hard games which concludes, the schedule, was not in evidence. Intensive drill alone can weld this Harvard machine into a well-coordinated unit capable of realizing its full strength. Only occasionally did the eleven click efficiently and only then could those who saw the clash get an idea of the promise which the aggregation holds for the future...