Word: fasted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...eminent authority on the subject. Too, he showed me numerous articles of the same nature which he had written, and which he had planned to peddle about to different papers. As he so originally expressed it, "they were going like hot cakes'. I can't write them fast enough!" All in all, it was an enlightening evening...
...Taft is proud to call himself a middle-of-the-roader, a moderate, a mugwump. Thesis of You And I-And Roosevelt is that to win the 1936 campaign Republicans must appeal to other moderates who like progress but not too much of it, and that much not too fast. Those moderates, he warns, are in sympathy with most of the New Deal aims. He himself likes its tariff policies, its securities and stock exchange regulation, its bank deposit insurance, its handling of strikes and championship of Labor. He approves of public works, regulation of public utilities (including government "yardsticks...
...predecessor of Hitler as Chancellor remains in charge of the German diplomatic mission in Vienna, which retains the status of legation, von Papen personally is raised to "Ambassador Extraordinary on Special Mission." With Germany taking de facto hold of Danzig (see p. 20) and Italy's conquest fast gaining de facto recognition, the new "Dictators' Diplomacy" was philosophized upon in Rome by No. 1 Fascist Editor Virginio Gayda of Giornale d'ltalia. Wrote he of Adolf Hitler's order making Germany's Addis Ababa legation a consulate...
Rhode Island's Narragansett has been a good thing ever since its fast start two years ago, when the State Legislature weakened before smart lobbying and legalized pari-mutuel horse-race gambling. Within a month the Narragansett Racing Association was incorporated and before the summer was done held its first race with paint still wet on the grandstand. The track takes 62% of all bets made, keeps the "breaks" (i. e., odd pennies left over after bets are paid off to an even nickel). Including the breaks, Narragansett's take last year was $2,174,000. Concessions, programs...
...committed his first murder at the age of 9 (self-defense: the policeman had caught him red-handed). He sold many an invention, cleaned up in the stockmarket before he was well into his teens. Unwary adults, engaging him in conversation, wished they had not. John matured so fast and far that before he was adolescent he had outstripped all ordinary human beings...