Word: fasted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Scottish Laborites. "Many of us have asked in this House for bread for the poor," he cried, "and we have not gotten it. But you!" ? gesturing toward the Government Bench ? "Where it was a question not of bread but of this manuscript the thing was bought fast enough...
...President. In the afternoon, when death by dawn seemed certain, Chancellor Hitler left Berlin by plane and arrived at Neudeck with his personal photographer. Only strenuous remonstrance by Col. Oscar von Hindenburg prevented the taking of deathbed flashlight pictures of Nazi Hitler by the side of Hero Hindenburg. Sinking fast, Old Paul barely recognized Herr Hitler to whom his last words were "Ach, Herr Reichskanzler...
Within the next six months, Nippon Yusen Kaisha will have six big fast new freighters plying between Manhattan arid the Orient. At Havre, the French Line is busy prettifying the launched Normandie for her queenship of the seas next summer. But far the busiest shipyards in the world are the British. Next month Her Majesty Queen Mary will travel north to the Clyde there to launch a 73,000-ton monster which in 1936 will take away the Normandie's crown of size. And the name which Queen Mary will cry as she whangs the bottle, will not be Britannia...
...experience had been valuable; back in London he was soon forging ahead, first as secretary to a rising M. P., then as an able underling in a Government office. When the War came a weak heart kept Tom from the front but did not prevent him from rising fast in his job. After the Armistice Tom threw over a promising political career for bigger pickings, married his dead friend's mistress, scurried faster and faster over the Tom Tiddler's ground of post-War London. He and Undine met again, realized too late that they were still...
Fashions in heroes change like fashions in hats, and the ruthless strong man is fast returning to popular favor. Author Blanco, romantic but unsentimental Latin, has always admired the type. His idealized portrait of an imaginary dictator will not please U. S. readers so much as his Journey of the Flame (TIME, Nov. 6), but they will lend a friendlier ear than they would have a few years ago to Rico, Bandit and Dictator...