Word: fasted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...touch with the kidnappers. When the child's body was found, Curtis renounced his story, was convicted of obstructing justice. He was just barely kept out of jail by Lawyer W. Lloyd Fisher of Flemington. In the past two years he and Lawyer Fisher have grown to be fast friends. Flabbergasted was Friend Fisher, now an associate in Hauptmann's defense, last week when Friend Curtis switched his story again, announced that he was now ready to testify that Hauptmann was one of the kidnappers with whom he had dealings...
Hearing the approaching alarums of a Communist-bandit horde coming fast down the Yuan River, the Misses Granner and Renninger hopped into a small Chinese junk and told the boatman to make haste by sail and oar for the city of Changteh. As the square-bowed, flat-bottomed boat slithered downstream, the army's hubbub crept up behind. The junk was lolloping along 20 miles short of Changteh when it was overhauled and seized by the bandits...
...March 1876, two young scientists worked hard, fast and eagerly in their shop in a Boston boardinghouse attic. One was Thomas Augustus Watson. The other was Alexander Graham Bell. Following Bell's instructions Watson had constructed the first crude telephone, but the results were disappointing. Sounds came over the wire, but no intelligible words...
Thomas Benton has filled scores of note books with sketches of the U. S. scene which eventually find their way into his work. He boasts that all his burlesque queens, stevedores, Negroes, preachers, and college professors are actual persons. His vivid portraits of them are fast becoming collectors' items and the cost of Bentons has been steadily rising since the Navy put him on the right artistic track. Last week, Thomas Benton, who is usually jolly, had a special reason to be cheerful. He sold his oil, Cotton Town (see reproduction), to Marshall Field...
...penny arcades of upper Broadway, in the gaudy Sixth Avenue Sportland of Schork & Schaffer, in all the dark and smoky dens where New Yorkers drop hundreds of millions of nickels into coin machines and peep shows, the name of William Rabkin is great indeed. A fast-talking Jew of 40 with a passion for invention, William Rabkin gave the world the coin-operated electric digger. This glass-encased device has nervous metal claws on the end of a shaft which is manipulated by a row of dials outside. The shaft hangs over a pile of hard candies. With a little...