Word: fulle
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...matters were farm relief-which might once have been postponed until autumn on the excuse of insufficient time-and rivers-and-harbors appropriations- which involved major issues as well as a bag full of self-ingratiating tricks by scores of politicians...
...House having logrolled the rivers-and-harbors bill through, Senatorial enemies of this Illinois River put their backs up with redoubled determination. The lobbies were as full of gentlemen from Ohio, Indiana, Michigan and Minnesota declaring that the bill must await a Supreme Court decision on Great Lakes levels, as they were of gentlemen from Illinois and other states with fingers in the pie, led by Representative Martin Madden, who swore they would hold the House until the Senate acted...
...first years after the war, at Covent Garden, London, a pair of "plus-fours" was seen. Following this outrage the tuxedo, dinner garment of touts dining in company and gentlemen dining alone, appeared frequently in the boxes, where none without full evening dress dared enter in the days when good King Edward reigned. Last week the management of Covent Garden made evening dress once more obligatory...
Died. Pongo, ship's bitch of the S. S. City of Oran; buried with full marine honors (the British Union Jack wrapped about her carcass) off Australia. In seven years at sea she had travelled "a million miles," visited nearly every country, known Limehouse ratruns, Manhattan piers, street fights in her native (presumably) Calcutta. She worked her passages carrying squigees and swab sticks, guarding the gangway, doing amusing tricks...
...play in which a scene of seduction was elaborately acted out in full view of the customers. (Arabesque...