Word: fasted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Lowell was easy enough but the light, fast backfield of Winthrop has yet to lose a House Championship since play started...
Messiah. A painting of Dr. Townsend stood last week at the head of the stairway to the Stevens' Grand Ballroom and pictures of him sold fast at 50? apiece. With the pleasant-faced little woman who was a widow with seven children when he married her, the gaunt, grey, gentle one-time country doctor moved among his followers receiving the reverence accorded an authentic Messiah. He it was who first had the gleam which promised to give old people ease, young people jobs, drive poverty from the land forever. Since early last summer he and Mrs. Townsend traveling mostly...
Overlooked was the fact that, on arriving in Chicago, Dr. Townsend had told newshawks that his organization had taken m $1,200,000 to date. Publicity Director Boyd Gurley, one-man brain trust of the Townsend outfit, smoothed things over by declaring that the movement had grown so fast its directors really did not know where they stood. Onetime editor of the Kansas City Post and managing editor of the Indianapolis Times, for which he won the 1929 Pulitzer Prize "for the most disinterested and meritorious public service." Braintruster Gurley writes most of the Townsend Weekly, bats out inspirational speeches...
...Capital was considered a barren field for music when Kindler went there five years ago. But the affable Dutchman quickly made friends with people who became his sponsors, labored tirelessly over a disjointed body of players who badly needed work. From its feeble beginnings the orchestra has grown fast. First winter there were 87 guarantors. Now there are 1,600. First concerts had programs which were not too difficult to play, easy to digest. Conductor Kindler has waxed bolder as his audiences waxed larger, plans for this season a rich Brahms festival with Pianist Myra Hess...
...Cheever, a converted centre, who though weighing but 155 pounds, has scratched his way up from the lower shelves to a B team ranking in a position he had never played before. Were it not for his weight he would surely be in the front rank, for he is fast and quick on his feet and pulls out of the line as well as anyone on the field...