Word: fullers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...circumstances of the banning here fall into a pattern which needs vigilantly to be examined and exposed. The Watch and Ward Society lurks in the background, though the responsibility for the suppression has been taken by Richard Fuller, president of the Boston Board of Retail Book Merchants. Since Thomas Sullivan, the Police Commissioner, has explicitly stated. "I do not ban the book--I-have no right to do so," this would seem to put the action squarely upon the shoulders of Mr. Fuller. An earlier member of the Fuller family, Margaret Fuller, would not have acted with such timidty...
...COMIC STYLE AN ANTI-HOLLYWOOD BIAS. WE FILM-MAKERS REALIZE OUR COMMUNITY IS A GORGEOUS SUBJECT FOR SATIRE. WE GRANT, OR ANYWAY MOST OF US DO, THAT WE ARE THE WORLD'S FUNNIEST PEOPLE. YOU CAN WRITE MORE JOKES ABOUT US THAN YOU CAN ABOUT PLUMBERS, UNDERTAKERS OR FULLER BRUSH SALESMEN. HOLLYWOOD IS GUILTY OF DELIBERATE WITHDRAWAL FROM THE LIVING WORLD. IT SEEKS TO ENTERTAIN, AND WE SUSPECT THAT THE SUCCESS OF THE WITHDRAWAL IS WHAT MAKES HOLLYWOOD FUNNY. BUT LET TIME MAGAZINE VIEW WITH ALARM OR POINT WITH PRIDE, BUT NOT LAUGH OFF HOLLYWOOD'S GROWING RECOGNITION...
Wilson was born into a distinguished Suffolk family. One ancestor, Lord Raglan, commanded British forces in the Crimean War; another, Lord Cardigan, led the charge of the Light Brigade at Balaklava; an uncle, General Sir Henry Fuller Maitland Wilson, had a corps at Salonika in World...
...Notification has just come to me that Stephen, my youngest son, aged 18, a private first :lass in the United States Marine Corps, was killed in action. I have come to New York hoping to receive fuller details regarding the circumstances of my son's death, which occurred so soon after I received his APO number and notice of his reaching his destination overseas...
Early last month Cox confessed. He said he had made 15 to 20 bets, $25 to $100 apiece. All were before mid-May - when, so he said, he first learned of the rule prohibiting such wagers. When Landis demanded a fuller accounting of such goings-on Bill Cox 1) refused, 2) sold his Phillies' stock to a Du Pont vice president...