Word: fasted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...began by buying pictures that appealed to him, works by Picasso, Rouault, Derain, Utrillo and by his friends Max Weber and Maurice Sterne. By 1933 his collection was big enough to rate an exhibition at the Chicago Arts Club. Gershwin himself started painting in 1929 and came along fast with a few tips and encouragement from his artist cousin, Henry A. Botkin. He liked to paint so much that in the year or two before his death he actually preferred it to composition at the piano, even thought of giving up his music...
...dark, unfamiliar waters last fortnight, the Dollar Line's crack 21,936-ton President Hoover ran hard aground on a reef 18 miles off Formosa's east coast, 450 miles north of Manila. There was a heavy swell on, and by daylight the 615-ft. vessel was fast on the rocks for more than half her length. A few hundred yards away the 503 passengers and 330 members of the crew could see tiny Hoishoto Island, and within a mile or two a handful of other Japanese islands-all small, bleak, sparsely inhabited. Early messages from the President...
...Last week the Maritime Commission called for bids on twelve new fast cargo ships, some of which American Export will presumably buy. The specifications are for single screw steel ships: length, 435 ft.; breadth, 63 ft.; draft, 25¼ ft.; speed 15½ knots (about 17½ m.p.h. 6 m.p.h. faster than average U. S. freighters); range, 13,000 miles; to cost around $1,700,000 each and to be completed within 14 months. All must be swiftly convertible into useful war vessels...
...photographers and observers from the Workers' Defense League and the Civil Liberties Union. The idea was to test the validity of Boss Hague's ordinances against distributing non-commercial literature. The organizers from New York had some difficulty getting into Jersey City at all, for almost as fast as they arrived waiting police and plainclothesmen put them back on the ferries and tubes to Manhattan. When their infiltration was nonetheless accomplished, they staged an orderly demonstration and were promptly picked up and whirled in waiting automobiles to the city line, where they were dumped with a stern lecture...
Although its editors call the U. S. Rising Tide a magazine, its nature is more that of an illustrated religious tract. In 48 fast moving pages of striking photos and photomontages, it shows the reader a world where "human wisdom has failed . . . but God has a plan." Page after page of pictures, exhibiting exuberant Oxford Group grins, illustrate how "one man" (Dr. Buchman) brought God's plan to Oxford in 1921, how his disciples spread it in Canada, the Scandinavian nations, Switzerland, The Netherlands...