Word: fasted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meanwhile, the 1936 Album, under the Chairmanship of Deric Nusbaum, is fast nearing completion and will be ready for distribution in the near future...
...Love Before Breakfast," is as crazy as its title, but is more than averagely amusing. Preston Foster crashes through with a lot of fast comebacks to make up for the merely average performance of Carole Lombard. Janet Beecher as Carole's mother does an excellent job with her tempestuous daughter who is in love with Cesare Romero. Romero plays his usual greasy part and the whole audience is happier when Foster and his millions save the heroine from a sloppy marriage...
...backwoods Bannisters, for all their advantages of fresh air and beautiful scenery, lived in a condition of squalor equal to that of any city slum. Heavy, truculent Mother Bannister was the township's "fast woman." In peaked caps and corduroy breeches, her sons, pinheaded Daniel and grinning Arthur, snared rabbits in the woods. So irredeemably relaxed were the Bannister morals that a Salvation Army officer assigned to improve their lot ended by undoing 13-year-old daughter Marie. At about that time the Bannisters got their bright idea...
...frequent light meals, frequent meatless meals. To most Unitarians and Congregationalists Lent involves no extraordinary self-denial. In recent years churches of the middle ground-Presbyterian, Baptist and Methodist-have observed Lent with increasing mystical piety. Last week Easter Sunday brought joyous release to a Methodist minister whose Lenten fast had caused him as much belt-tightening as Catholics experience. However, Rev. William H. Alderson, supervisor of the Methodist Church on Long Island's North Shore, had curbed his appetite for economic as well as religious reasons. For 40 days Methodist Alderson, his wife and his three children...
Meantime, however, Julian was learning fast. He learned by working for their neighbor, Henry, a dirty Pennsylvania Dutchman, but a good farmer, with a periodic weakness for the bottle. Thanks to Henry's precepts and sober example, Julian was able to save his father's farm from absolute ruin, but it was hard going...