Word: fullness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...famed for temperament as for her coloratura, telephoned from a hospital, trilled that she would come by for a chat about her contract as soon as the doctors would let her. Not at all, said Rudi Bing. He dashed off to the hospital himself "with my arms full of flowers and a two weeks' supply of charm...
Only one unqualified superlative regularly passes the blue pencils of Gannon & Co. In full-page ads in the Times, the Chicago Tribune is permitted to call itself the "World's Greatest Newspaper." Explains Censor Gannon: "The Times can afford to be magnanimous...
...years before. Working in St. Louis' garment industry in the daytime, Gus earned a bachelor's degree in night school, then a master's, ended by teaching night classes himself. In 1920 he quit his clothing-store job to teach at Roman Catholic St. Louis University full time...
Trees for Israel. St. Louis University had showed its esteem for Gus by making him a full professor in 1943. Zionist circles had honored him too. In 1946 when friends took up a collection to buy Gus a gift for his work in Zionism, he asked them to spend the money for trees for Israel. Last fall Gus learned that the ten-thousandth tree had just been planted in a section of Israel's national forest named...
...Comers. Ottershaw's students came from all income levels. (Some parents could afford the full tuition and boarding fees; others were unable to pay anything at all.) Dockers' sons and farmers' sons from three-R grade schools were mixed in with middle-class youngsters who had been learning Latin since they were seven. To provide for all comers, Foot and the council set a scale of boarding fees that varies from ?110 to nothing, depending on family income, a curriculum with choices ranging from the classics to courses in science and vocational training. For each...