Word: lulls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...middle-aged man?whom he had tutored and drilled so long, Fredrich Wilhelm Hohenzollern, who was to have been a Kaiser. With them also came the other onetime princes?Eitel Friedrich, like a bully top-sergeant; Oscar, the simple farmer; August Wilhelm, the dreamy painter. There was a lull as they reached their places, then a renewed storm of hocking as Admiral von Schroeder called the toast for "His Majesty our Exalted War Lord...
...estimable elder of the Vagabond whose residence is most generally reported in the neighborhood of Mount Auburn Street took occasion the other day during the course of his annual homily on the Yale game to deprecate the excellent opportunity afforded earnest scholars by the pre-Christmas lull which is about to set in. Fully remembering the ring of this scoffing laugh, the Vagabond nevertheless clears his throat moderately and points to the lecture offerings...
...ideals, their doubts and convictions, their theories and experiences. They have unrolled a prospect wide and various across these one hundred and sixty pages, and they have adorned them with truth, as they found it, and with beauty, as they saw it. Their hope is that they may lull you into flattering agreement or sting you into critical dissent." Contributors noted: Editor Henry Hazlitt, Literary Editor of the New York Evening Sun; Psychologist Joseph Jastrow; Financier Matthew S. Sloan. President of the New York Edison Co. Fat was the fledgling Century (160 pages) few (6) its pages of paid advertising...
...caught in a riot. Grant thinks. Someone preaches a pro-slavery sermon. Lincoln thinks. A Yank soldier, intoxicated in New Orleans, raves against Creole gentility. Richmond's Spinster Araminta steals a loaf of bread. An old Jew beats a Negro woman for her prejudice against Jews. In the lull of battle, Cecile bestows her virginity on her Confederate fiance, to make his respite happy. Gettysburg scenes. New York draft riot scenes. Fragments of letters, newspapers...
...tendons, hide and even a food ball in its stomach. Recently one Ewing Waterhouse of El Paso descended the pit and found the remains, which forthwith went to Yale's Peabody Museum. It is the third and best-preserved ground sloth known, reported Yale's Richard Sivann Lull...