Word: fasted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...authorities worked fast, the flames faster. That night a half-burned pile of examination papers and a completely burned Parliament House were surrounded and guarded by a cordon of police...
Upon registering the mortgage, Hartvigsen learned a larger one was ahead of it. That crafty Mack! And Rosa kept putting off their wedding, until young Nikolai Arentsen, her former betrothed, came home with his law learning, opened an office and began to get cases thick and fast. Rosa conveyed to the big fisherman that she was sorry, but . . . Soon he was "Benoni" again to everyone. He gave Mack notice for his mortgage money but went on working with him. He had to. Mack knew business, Benoni nothing. By chance Benoni learned there were lead and silver along a stretch...
Another protagonist of the much belabored Freshman tells how only last year a very green Freshman on his first visit to Cambridge arrived by subway. Just as he arrived above ground he descried a street car marked "Harvard" and ran through the fast-closing doors as the car gathered momentum, only to be set down two blocks later in the car-barn...
...Addie?regular hours, meals with green vegetables, sliding down the brass fireman's-pole and running upstairs to do it again. As years went by and she still came and perched on his bed in her nightie to kiss him good morning, Jim trembled to see her French blood fast rounding and ripening her into a woman. The city agreed with Mr. Fippany, too. Long a jaunty gambler, he pulled his hat devilishly over one brown eye and drove about the city, his two mules and a string of ravishing bells marking him for no ordinary junk dealer. He compassed...
...reluctantly, the baseball scandal of 1919, when certain players of the Chicago "Black Sox" were found with big wads of money under their pillows which a gambler had paid them to "throw" the World's Series. The gambler is now a respected Realtor, but those players ? athletes, as fast and heady as ever spit on a bat ? were ousted from organized baseball. One of them was Buck Weaver, a third-baseman; another" was first-bagger Chick Gandil. They stepped behind the curtain that hid Hal Chase, perhaps the most graceful ballplayer that ever lived, who had also left...