Word: fullers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...stomach, and rolled over on his back." After that battle, Corbett made milk famous all over the world by drinking a glass of it to celebrate his victory. Came a night when he was the guest at a supper in the Savoy Hotel, London, at which Loie Fuller, dancer, and Mme. Yvette Guilbert performed for him as if he were royalty. Where another would thump his chest in robust braggadocio, he speaks with a sly wink and a deprecating gesture, for he wants the reader to understand that Corbett was a prize-fighter who wore a gardenia in his buttonhole...
...anniversary of Abraham Lincoln's birthday, celebrated today by proclamation of Governor Alvan T. Fuller of Massachusetts, marks the 60th year since the assassination of the President...
...team in the lead. Shortly before the period closed the 1928 men rallied and by means of excellent team-work, Robinson tied the score. HARVARD 1928 MILTON Crawford, Cox r.w. l.w. Wood, Hutchinson Chase, Richardson c. c. Putnam Saltonstall, H. Swann l.w. r.w. Cunningham, Batchelder Robinson r.d. l.d. Clifford, Fuller Garrison l.d. r.d. Bigelow Morrill g. g. Kernan
...often halted while the chief executive of the State lays a corner stone; but it is very seldom that a busy governor can spare ten minutes of the people's time to write a personal letter of encouragement to a small and unknown invalid. That is what Governor Fuller has done, however, and it is safe to say that little Eddie O'Neil of Attleboro will treasure till his dying hour the card and note that reached him on his fifth birthday...
There is much more in this than a mere act of kindliness and sympathy on the part of an overworked official. It is quite likely that Governor Fuller was actuated by nothing more weighty than the generous impulse of a moment, and that when he had finished his letter, the incident was crowded swiftly from his mind before a press of state affairs. 'It is probable that he will never see the boy to whom he wrote, and equally probable that the boy will never...