Word: fasted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fishing season on the Grand Banks, the opening of the dressmaking season is, to Paris, a business event. Last week by boat, train and plane sharp-eyed buyers piled into the city to attend the official autumn & winter openings of the great dress houses, openings that came so thick & fast that exhausted buyers had scarcely time for more than a foot bath, a glass of tea and a herring between engagements all week long. At the most popular house of all, Schiaparelli, on the Place Vendôme, department store executives who had crossed the U. S. and the Atlantic...
About that time E. L. Cord's fast-moving career suddenly changed direction. In 1934 he took his second wife and their children to England to escape kidnapping threats. In Wall Street rumors began to fly that Capitalist Cord, who kept his fortune in 1929 by a wise abstinence from the markets, had begun to dabble and get burned. Cord stayed in England for two years. Then last summer he attracted the attention of the Securities & Exchange Commission because of his heavy trading in Checker Cab stock. Last April came the astonishing news that hard-bitten Mr. Cord...
...investigators, who parked inconspicuously while clocking the cars over measured distances and noting their license plates, offered several explanations for these differences: either Connecticut people went slow because they knew they would get no preferential treatment if caught speeding, or the Midwesterners, or the outstate people went fast because of the "recklessness of the vacation spirit," or because "the fastest and most reckless drivers of any community . . . take the longest trips." The Bureau also found that cars in which the driver is alone travel faster than those with passengers...
Railroad hostesses say that the two questions which passengers most frequently ask are "How fast are we going?" and "How do you like your job?" They also say that dining car chefs used to grumble when hostesses invaded their kitchens to fill up infants' milk bottles, but that they are slowly getting accustomed to such intrusions...
...worth a damn") may feel that Correspondent Duranty has now added to that reputation the right to be called the most official of unofficial Russian novelists. The tale of a peasant boy who rises to the rank of a Red Army commander, One Life, One Kopeck is a fast-moving, dramatic, frankly sympathetic novel which compares well with the best examples of Russian Civil War drama released through the Soviet movie trust Amkino, is partly told in a Russian equivalent of the Irish sure-and-begorra vein of humor, partly in the vein of Duranty's best news dispatches...