Word: fulle
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hamlyn (contemplating divorce) that she sits down, writes her husband: "Think kindly of me and be happy, happy, happy." The best part of this story is a quotation from the funeral service: "Man that is born of woman hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery. He cometh up, and is cut down, like a flower. . . ." The last story, "The Letter," has a better and grimier plot. A thin, sensitive, charming married woman shoots, kills, a man who, she said, tried to rape her. The court acquits her. Really, she killed him because he had cast...
...wrote advertising as an executive for the Boston Store, then for Bloomingdale's in Manhattan. When Editor Bernarr ("Body Love") Macfadden started the Daily Graphic, Mr. Cohen promoted the circulation, most successfully, for nearly two years. Then, without any of the usual short-story apprenticeship, he wrote this full length novel, which will be definitely important if it leads to further study of the Pardways, as now planned. Lester Cohen's father is Dr. Hymen
...Horses some to ride full tilt along...
...Brown crushed a bewildered Lehigh team by 32 to 0. Randall was a terror to the Lehigh defense, tearing through big holes in the line to reap gain after gain. Edes, at quarterback, was effective in running back kick, taking the ball on the dead run, and attaining his full speed almost at once. The cooperation of the line and backfield was excellent, and the Erunonians give every promise of being hard to stop in later games...
There were other Commencement vanities savoring less of the flesh and the devil. On the great day the ladies of the Colony turned out in full regalla, calculated to shame the lilies of the field. There is a famous story of an elderly dame who sat up all night before the 1758 Commencement to save her hair, done up the previous evening by the coiffeuse, who had no other tine for that particular lady. Another writer on Commencement--one bitter toward the fop-pishdress--declares that a roomy family coach could carry but two ladies, one sitting forward...