Word: fasted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Easing back in their red leather chairs one afternoon last week, homesick Senators yawned and dozed through a drearisome duet by their reading clerk and the Vice President of the U. S. Twice as fast and half as intelligible as a train announcer, the clerk rattled out the amendments by which the Senate Finance Committee had revamped the House's tax bill into something more suitable to Franklin Roosevelt. Whenever the clerk's voice dropped, John Nance Garner mumbled: ''Without objection, adopted...
First issue of "Eyes of the Press," correctly styling itself "a new departure and the first of its kind in the field," plugged Jack Price's old campaign to give reporters cameras. "The snobbishness of the scribe towards the photographer," declared Price, "is fast disappearing. A well-covered story is still the paramount issue. . . . Photography is no longer the specialized profession. . . . Any reporter can make a really good picture within a short time if he will give a little care and attention to a camera. . . . Some of the great est of all news photographs have been made by amateurs...
Greyhound got away fast at the rail. Suddenly the field, which had passed the starter well bunched and trotting smoothly, scattered in complete confusion. Pedro Tipton and Tilly Tonka broke first, and then, on the first turn, Lawrence Hanover. As the horses trotted into the first leg of the V-shaped backstretch, the crowd groaned because Warwell Worthy had opened up a gap of 15 lengths. Although Greyhound was almost the same distance ahead of the rest, it looked as if the shortest priced Hambletonian favorite in years was now doomed to lose the heat...
...failed to discourage Greyhound's backers, scratched him off their boards. By winning the second heat in 1934 Greyhound became the first trotter to take the Hambletonian Stake in straight heats since Walter Dear in 1929. A lean, grey, three-year-old gelding, singularly unimpressive when not in fast motion, he ambled back to the finish line, received a wreath of roses and an embrace from the weather-beaten driver with whom he had earned $18.000 (winner's share of the $33,000 purse) for his owner, Edward I J. Baker of St. Charles...
...continued her good work by beating Phyllis Mudford King and when Helen Jacobs was through with Dorothy Round, 6-3, 6-2, the U. S. needed only one more point for the series. It was up to Mrs. Arnold to get it in her match with "Kay" Stammers whose fast left-handed drive has helped make her England's No. 3 player, who eats lump sugar during her matches and who, in the Kent Championship last June, won a love set from Mrs. Moody. Mrs. Arnold...