Word: fulle
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Chicken In Chicago, a policemen, one Sergeant Krai, bought a dozen fresh eggs for his wife, negligently left them in his locker at the police station. Two days later detectives heard strange sounds-cacklings, scratchings, cries of "Cheep, cheep" -from the squad room. The Sergeant's room was full of chicken...
...Manhattan, the Valentino case had given Bernarr Macfadden's Evening ("porno") Graphic opportunity to drool libidinously. According to its headlines and full- full-page accounts, Rudolph Valentino had been poisoned by a jealous female, had been pummeled by a jealous male, had been shot in a supper-club quarrel...
...principle of the oil-compression engine was worked out by Engineer Rudolf Diesel (1857-1913) of Germany, who fell overboard from an Antwerp-Harwich mail steamer and was drowned in 1913, before the full possibilities of his work had been realized...
...Fonck-Fonck, Fonck-Fonck! For weeks the press has been full of the ace of allied aces, M. le Capitaine René Fonck, who came to the U. S. to fly from Long Island to Paris for a $25,000 prize offered by Hotelman Raymond Orteig of Manhattan, (TIME...
...practice for a $25,000 marathon swim announced for the near future by William Wrigley Jr., gum man, chairman of the Santa Catalina Island Co. Swimmer Radowich saw the shark too, but paid no heed. He had enough to think about, for placid though the waters looked, they were full of treacherous tide-rips and cold eddies which dragged him about like a chip. It was the rips and eddies, not the idle shark, that made John Radowich signal to be lifted out, after three hours of strenuous swimming had taken him only six miles. . . . Other aspirants to Mr. Wrigley...