Word: fullers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...looks as if the East will dominate in the hurdles for the first time in many years. Dugger and Hall of Tufts must contend with Frank Fuller of Virginia, the Ivy League trio of Captain Jay Shields and Ted Day of Yale and Don Donahue of Harvard, George Gilson of Holy Cross, and Jim Smith of Temple in a splendid high hurdles field. The Tufts' ace will have Captain Walter Zittel of Cornell, Don Donahue, Harold Stickel of Pitt, and Warren Wittens of Pennsylvania for strong opposition in the low hurdles...
...MARGARET FULLER-Mason Wade-Viking...
...Humbug." A sort of Transcendentalist Dorothy Thompson, Margaret Fuller was No. 1 feminist writer of her day. She edited the highbrow Dial, and as Horace Greeley's first columnist ranked next to Poe as literary critic. But she is not remembered for her writing. What survives is curiosity about her personality. Biographer Wade, 26-year-old publisher's editor and book reviewer, will not satisfy the curiosity of more exacting readers, but his biography is well organized and readable. To Margaret Fuller's credit is Emerson's doting praise, many another Transcendentalist's compliments...
...next four years her tours, on which he often accompanied her. netted the two of them $500,000. Two other Hurok dancers were the late Isadora Duncan, who fortified herself with whiskey and champagne, left a confetti-like whirl of bouncing checks wherever she went; and Loie Fuller, whose tour was supposed to be keyed to the ludicrous U. S. progress of her friend Queen Marie of Rumania. Other attractions launched in the U. S. by Hurok: Basso Feodor Chaliapin, Contralto Marian Anderson, Dancer Mary Wigman, the Vienna Choir Boys, the Piccoli Theatre, Pianist Rudolf Serkin, Hindu Dancer Uday Shan...
...prevent splitting of the seam. Counsel for the alleged infringer waved a pair of red flannels, asked indignantly whether a patent should be permitted to take away the ancient and sacred right of wives to patch their husbands' underwear. He won his case. Chief Justice Melville Weston Fuller laughed so hard he nearly fell under the bench...