Word: fulness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Letters. Pulitzer novel of the year was Honey in the Horn by Harold L. Davis (TIME, Aug. 26), a long, humorous, color ful account of pioneer days in Oregon, where Author Davis was born 40 years ago. Harold Davis was the first winner of the Harper Novel Prize ($7,500) to cash in on a Pulitzer award ($1,000) as well...
...call their pastime "Ping Pong," a trade name against which the U. S. Table Tennis Association, currently headed by Cartoonist Carl Zeisberg of the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin, revolted three years ago. Table Tennis Topics, official magazine of the Association, will not print the words ping pong, uses the scorn ful abbreviation ''P.P." when forced to refer to it. In Europe the game has more prestige than it enjoys in the U. S. Five thousand spectators watched Miss Aarons win the world's championship. Crowds almost as large cheered her in London. Vienna, Budapest. Although the best Philadelphia...
...sing in Die Walkure, Siegfried, Gotterdammerung. Many a Ring ticket was sold on her account. But wholehearted Wagnerians realized that Flagstad was only one part in the cycle, no more important than Danish Tenor Lauritz Melchior who must battle and die as Siegmund in Walkure, become the swaggering, youth ful hero in Siegfried, the valiant, mis guided pawn in Gotterdammerung, spend some nine hours on the stage in the course of the Ring production. Tenor Melchior made his Metropolitan debut the afternoon of Feb. 17, 1926. But a few hours later he was almost forgotten when Marion Talley first appeared...
Behind Samuel Insull lay 23 idle days of voyaging on the blue waters of the Mediterranean and the Atlantic. Behind that voyage lay nearly two years of lonely exile when he was hunted like a rat in a hole. Behind that exile lay three years of fear ful struggle to preserve a utilities empire in which thousands and thousands of people had sunk their life savings. Behind that struggle lay nearly 50 years of hard work during which, at first acre by acre and later province by province, Samuel Insull had built that empire. On the Water...
...indirect transcription : "After his lawfully lady left him, he looked so down in the heart, she offered to do his washing and cooking. ... He stayed out late mighty nigh every night and came in looking all whipped down. . . . When she asked him where he went he made power ful good excuses, for he had a mighty glib tongue. He swore to God the first night that the holy spirit had fallen on him so heavy during the sermon he had to leave the church and go off in the woods to pray. ... He talked mighty sweet about how he hated...