Word: fullers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Garland? Fuller...
With Hamlin Garland, the other day, was Henry B. Fuller, come on from Chicago for a visit, perhaps to live in Manhattan permanently. Fuller, whose delicately conceived novels and verses are ranked high in contemporary literature in spite of the fact that he has written vers libre, would probably be considered by the sex-ridden rebels of the new writing a Victorian. He is far from that. This shy, small, smiling little white-haired man is a volcano of opinions and ideals. He reads The Dial? which is often more than I can do. He follows current writing avidly...
...Navy Department received a telegram from Rear Admiral Sumner E. W. Kittelle, Commander of the Destroyer Squadron of the Battle Fleet: "Seven vessels landed on Pedernales Point [75 miles north of Santa Barbara]. Fuller, badly on rocks, listed 20 degrees starboard; Woodbury, same, listed 40 degrees port; Chauncey, high up inside rocks, and upright; Young, on beam end, three-quarters submerged; Delphy, on beam end, three-quarters submerged and broken in half: S. P. Lee, on beach under cliffs, listed 20 degrees port; Nicholas, broadside on beach, listed 20 degrees starboard...
...When many years ago I saw him at a meeting of a board of directors . . . I saw the glow of fanatical eyes over narrow cheeks. These cheeks are now fuller, the lips somewhat heavier; yet these eyes, which now search the depths of other mysteries, can still laugh gaily or shoot lightnings of mistrust...
Colonel J. F. C. Fuller, a British General Staff officer, speaking before an audience of London physicians painted an unpleasant picture of aerial warfare. The purpose of the lecture was to prepare medical men for coping with tens of thousands of gas cases, and to popularize methods of self-protection among the civilian population. Five hundred airplanes could capture London by anaesthetizing the entire population-if the attacking fleet were humane enough to avoid poison gas. When the matter-of-fact British seriously consider such possibilities, there is little doubt that the next phase of aerial warfare might spell...