Word: fasted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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DEATH IN 4 LETTERS-Francis Beeding -Harper ($2). A fictionalized "Arms and the Men," with a crack journalist, a lady doctor, a huge red-bearded artist chasing and being chased across the Continent. Bright and fast, with some convincing touches of realism, considerable humor...
Other yarns: Oscar Cowlie found that he could milk his cows quicker if he took his. radio to the barn, tuned in on fast tempo music; Charles Nestor noticed the backs of his sheep were getting bare, investigation showed that swallows had picked wool therefrom to line their nests; Elmer Sweetdcw tapped his sugar bush, found a pail with whiskey in it next morning, reached into a knothole in the tree and pulled out a whiskey bottle placed there by a hired man years ago. He had drilled directly into the cork in tapping the tree. . . . HOWARD E. HAGGSTROM...
...Pied Pipers" All last week the nation's attention was held fast by the performance of two politicians, a priest and a onetime plow manufacturer. No public issue of any consequence was involved. No principle was at stake. No precedent was established. No scandal was exposed. Yet the man-in-the-street watched and listened with the same fascination that would make him pause to witness a dog fight. When the fusillade of vilification, obloquy, traducement and backbiting ceased, the chief result seemed to be that Senator Huey Pierce ("Kingfish") Long had received the most thundering mass of publicity...
...susceptible to small inequalities of color distribution which may show up when a cinema projection is sufficiently magnified. Not only does Dufaycolor not suffer from this defect but it has adopted such highly translucent inks hat it is able to state that its film is nearly half as fast as snapshot film...
Dufaycolor claims that its 35 mm. professional cinema film is fast enough to be used with existing lenses and lighting equipment. The British company is making this at the rate of 90,000 ft. per week, and U. S. distribution has been begun by E. Leitz Inc. and arranged for by Defender Photo Supply Co. (du Pont subsidiary). The 16 mm. amateur film is already on sale in Manhattan. A U. S. manufacturing branch has been incorporated in Delaware with an authorized capitalization of $10,000,000, is looking for investors...