Word: fasted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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National American Legion champion, Jeanne Ladd of Swampscott, has already indicated her willingness to throw over Swampscott High for a Harvard affiliation, saying "they're nice boys; they generally get what they want?" Other fast-stepping twirlers are expected to follow Jeanne's lead...
Speaking yesterday afternoon at the Waldorf-Astoria before the first session of the Ninth Annual New York Herald Tribune Forum on Current Problems, President Conant declared, "The perpetual disintegration of hard and fast class lines would seem to me the first aim of an educational system in a country which believes in the desirability of a truly classless society...
Bill Cunningham is no scholarly sportswriter like John Kieran of the New York Times. He is fast (in two hours he can file 3,000 words on a championship fight without ruffling his sandy hair), and has a flair for embroidering them with sentiment and drama...
That was the beginning of a deal. While the airlines' lawyers were arguing before the CAA, opponents Frye and Kratz went hangar-flying over drinks in a nearby bar, became fast friends. A few weeks ago they met again on a New Mexico dude ranch at a meeting of Conquistadores del Cielo (Conquerors of the Sky), an airline executives' organization for making hoopla in ten-gallon hats and hair pants (see cut). Over the poker table where they played with steady hand for fat stakes, and on horseback trips where they rode for saddle-galls, the deal...
...affectionately nicknamed "Culo de Hierro" (Iron Arse), Bolívar would suddenly break the tedium of a march by challenging his companions to outjump him. He liked to dance with female camp followers around the campfire, would break off abruptly to dictate (in Spanish, French or English) his fast, polished sentences to a secretary. He pardoned his venal aides, refused to feather his own nest, praised his generals unstintedly. He deliberately resigned as Supreme Chief in order to discourage dictatorship...