Word: fulle
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...last day or two of the President's "vacation" in Vermont were not much different from similar days in the White House. Two hundred automobiles full of "Grangers," from ten states rolled into Plymouth and were received on the lawn, rainy and misty although it was. Alva B. Johnson, onetime President of the Baldwin Locomotive Works; Representative John Q. Tilson, of the Speaker's Bureau of the Republican National Committee; John Barrett, Chairman of the Coolidge Independent Group; George W. Davison, Vice-President of the Central Union Trust Co., were among the callers. The total number of visitors...
...Those who know Illinois by the rolling farm lands and the occasional placid town of its northern part are not equipped to judge the Southern part ? "Egypt", as it is known because of the city of Cairo at the junction of the Mississippi and Ohio Rivers. Egypt is full of little hills and eminences, wooded overhead, peopled with rattlesnakes on the ground, honeycombed with mines beneath. Nearly everyone carries a revolver or automatic; nearly everyone is a deadly shot. It is necessary in order to support life. "Egypt" is like the Wild West, except that it is untamed. Those...
Questioned, he stated that he had filled the position only temporarily and had made it clear at the time of his acceptance that he would be unable to devote his full attention to parliamentary work. He thought it was time that the Party was led by someone who could give full time to the work...
...could find no trace of all Jarrell had seen. Revenue cutters, scouring the seas, towed nothing to port. Suspicion grew. Haled to the Herald-Tribune sanctum, Jarrell was questioned again. He stuck to his story, begged leave to bring substantiating evidence, left the office. The next mail brought a full confession that his "sea cabaret" was a myth. Sore at heart, the Herald-Tribune apologized to the public and to the other Manhattan newspapers; posted Sanford Jarrell's name on the bulletin board as "dishonorably dismissed." On reporters' benches the country over there was much moralizing...
...feels kindly toward the author for having written The Tiger in the House Peter Whiffle and The Blind Bow Boy. But this Countess tale levies a supertax on one's patience, so full is it of bad writing mingled with good, of cheap, pink-necktied flatulence cluttered over real understanding...