Word: fulle
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Howard Thurston played a trick on Calvin Coolidge. A stage was erected in the East Room of the White House; and the Coolidges (who are not attending public theatricals) assembled with a score of guests. Howard Thurston arrived with a moving van full of paraphenalia. With ducks, geese, pigeons, rabbits he prestidigitated. Then he took the President's watch, a gift from the Massachusetts Legislature, smashed it with a hammer, called for a loaf of bread from the kitchen. It was brought. Mrs. Coolidge cut it; and who would believe it??the watch appeared within, quite whole...
...After a full week of arduous labor in the famed Doria Palace at Rome, the Council of the League of Nations wound up its session; and its members scattered to the four winds...
Sherwood Anderson is not an old man, but he has found life full enough to spill into an autobiography and he has recently written a great book?A Story Teller's Story*; He was born in Ohio, was Sherwood Anderson, of simple people, part Italian. He had a father who delighted in romantic lies and a mother who cared in a detached but positive way for her three sons. Of these early days Sherwood Anderson tells with simplicity and understanding. He draws great characters in his slow, involved, rhythmical way. Yet the greatest character is himself, the artist struggling against...
...When the moon completely covers the sun, at the height of the eclipse" he said, "there will still be rays shooting out around the edges of the moon, which are called the corona. The corona has approximately the same total light as that of the full moon. It is made up probably of great tongues of flame which shoot thousands of miles out into space, and are reflected by something in the air, the nature of which has not yet been determined...
...full-page cartoon by Child is likely to be widely copied, not because it is as good a piece of drawing as the Lampoon has shown in many months, but because it is one of the neatest gibes at the prevailing craze that has yet appeared. Facing this is its nearest rival in this issue, whose own chief excellence is that it offers infinite possibilities, in style of treatment and in the heading. "Nursery Rhymes Retold", for a series of pictures hitting off an indefinite number of people and things within sight of Harvard Square...