Word: lulls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...WIND OF COMPLICATION- Susan Ertz-Appleton ($2). Once upon a time one furnished one's overnight guest with fiddlers to lull him to sleep. Now it is considered sufficient if guest-rooms contain a reachable reading-in-bed-lamp and, better than a novel, a book of short stories. The author of Madame Claire and After Noon now supplies a collection to which no hostess need hesitate to call attention before saying at the door, "Well, goodnight...
...armed deputies patrol the corridors. The other faction, led by the three Shelton brothers, also "mourns leaders' absence," for recently, Carl, Earl and Bernie Shelton entered Leavenworth Penitentiary, began 25-year sentences for robbing U.S. mails in Collinsville, Ill., on Jan. 27, 1925. Perhaps there may be a lull in Williamson County battle, murder and sudden death...
...king" of the Virgin Islands. His official title is Governor, but he is the sole military, civil and judicial head of the islands and is responsible to no one except the President. Few would be the wiser if he had his subjects wash his feet, rub his brow, lull him to sleep. "King" Waldo I will soon gaze upon his domain-the islands of St. Thomas, St. Croix and St. John, and some 50 adjacent islets controlling the Virgin Passage at the gateway to the Caribbean Sea, 60 miles east of Porto Rico, 1,400 miles from Manhattan. The Virgin...
...magnate, Sir Joseph -TIME, Nov. 15). Having finished our port and cigars, we gentlemen strolled into the drawing-room, disposed ourselves variously and engaged the ladies in what passes at such gatherings for conversation. There came, as there always comes, when celebrated authors, statesmen and clerics are present, a lull. Leaning negligently against the mantelpiece, I seized the occasion to muse audibly, 'I have a superior brain, but'-and I pointed dramatically to a corner of the room-'there sits the greatest living writer in England.' The man I designated was the Very Rev. William Ralph...
James Rowland Angell, President of Yale: "Lately, Director Richard Swann Lull of our university's Peabody Museum received a telegram from Texas saying that Old Bill, 22-year-old, 2,500-pound Asian armored rhinoceros, worth $30,000, had died very suddenly. Professor Lull, quick to reply, told Old Bill's owners, the Ringling Brothers Circus, that he would be glad to have them stand by an agreement made years ago by the late P. T. Barnum and renewed by the Ringlings when they bought out Mr. Barnum, that the corpses of their rare animals should come...