Word: faste
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...police, of course, tore the posters down as fast as they could. That night, the Carolists pasted up still more, pasted an especially large poster directly opposite the apartments of Queen Marie. This time the caricature of Prince Stirbey displayed him in an attitude highly uncomplimentary to the Queen. As Her Majesty glanced out the window, the insinuating caption fairly shrieked at her: How do you like...
Thursday. Dreamed I was playing Lenglen. My arm was paralyzed. I couldn't lift my racquet, and her shots came as fast as bullets from a machine-gun. They fell all around me with monotonous little explosions, tum-tat-tat-tum. ... It was rain on the roof. . . . No tennis today, I thought, and went to sleep again till 11 o'clock. . . . Some minx started the rumor that Patou had given me $1,000 worth of clothes. When reporters asked him about it he said: "You know I never gave anything away in my life." A good friend...
...helped them establish, not a twin, but an independent "younger brother" of his school. Twenty-four charter pupils were enrolled. Today, in its third year, this school (South Kent) has 51 boys, 7 masters and a waiting list of 100 or more boys, who will be admitted as fast as expansion can be effected. The headmaster of South Kent is Samuel Slater Bartlett, a 26-year-old New Englander now four years out of Lafayette College. Keen, vigorous, a young man of many interests and opportunities, he determined to make the school his career. His fellow prefect, Richard M. Cuyler...
...value common stock and ten millions of preferred, which the directors reserved the right to buy in at $110. Potentially this capitalization was two billions, one of the largest in the world. The lawyer deposited a check for $40,700 in taxes and scuttled out as fast as he had come...
Captain Hill, fast roving center for the Exeter six, is a dangerous shot and has scored against all the goal guards which he has faced this season. At one defense post the Exonians have a hard checking player in Fitts, who is also a scoring threat when he takes the puck on a dash down...