Word: fasted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...from the study of law in books and documents to the examination of individual offenses against society indicates a new outlook in the legal profession. Today the lawbreaker is dealt with under a hard and fast rule which was made to consider the mass and not the individual. With the present code there is little or no room for the services which a psychiatrist, physician, or social worker might render, not in punishing the crime, but in getting at the cause of the un-social conduct in the individual...
...true. So heavy were the ice jams in the Baltic that train and ferry were caught fast in the midst of the frozen sea. King Christian and his consort and their son were forced to spend the night marooned on a motionless ferryboat until released by Government icebreakers in the morning...
Eighteen thousand people can't be wrong. His is an adventure that has fast become obscured by dogmatic controversy. If one can appear in the midst of a warfare of creeds, rituals, and symbols, bringing a sincere fascination to a body of listeners, many of whom are incurious to investigate the intricacies of twentieth century faith,--if this is true, then at least a vestige of imagination and idealism prevails...
Another apparent benefit of air trains is related to Speed, chief advantage of air over surface travel. A fast-flying train can touch at different airports without stopping, by cutting off its trailers one by one with passengers or freight...
Ladies who in the past have presided over brilliant salons are Mme. du Barry, Mme. de Staël and the author of this book. The salon was fast becoming a lost art when Mrs. Draper staged her revival, substituted garish Bohemian cushions for frail gilt chairs, substituted brusque moderns for précieux. In "memories of a world that has passed" she reconstructs her London music room; then peoples it with musicians-Thibaud, Rubinstein, Ysaye-and with listeners- James, Sargent, Norman Douglas. Of each she makes a shrewd, if flattering, portrait. Of Henry James she threatens to write...