Word: fasted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...note, laughed at locksmiths and was the beadle's despair of his time. His uncanny dexterity at picking his way out of gaol not only cheated the gibbet many times but made him a popular hero. Latude, whom a whim of Madame la Pompadour kept thirty-five years fast incarcerated in the Bastille, retained his sanity by taming rats and spiders in his cell. Then there is the whimsical tale of Benvenuto Cellini and the mad constable of St. Angelo...
...LISTENERS WITH ME WERE EXCABINET MINISTER A PROMINENT INDUSTRIALIST AND NEWSPAPER PROPRIETOR STOP ALL MOST IMPRESSED WIDE RANGE OF NEWS COVERED AND GRAPHIC PRESENTATION BUT THOUGHT ATTITUDE RATHER SUPERFICIAL AND RESEMBLED MUSICAL COMEDY OF WEEKS NEWS STOP BROADCAST OFFSPRING NOT AS TIMEWORTHY AS FATHER TIME STOP ANNOUNCER SPOKE TOO FAST FOR ENGLISH AUDIENCE STOP INCIDENTAL MUSIC SUBTLY APPROPRIATE EACH ITEM STOP ROOSEVELT LAUDED HERE SHARPLY REPROVING THOSE WHO HAVE APPLAUDED LYNCHING STOP IMPLIED CRITICISM OF ROLPH APPRECIATED AND APPROVED STOP MARCH OF TIME CERTAINLY GREAT IMPROVEMENT ON INSIPID COLOURLESS NEWS BULLETINS GIVEN BY BBC WHO THOUGH OFFICIALLY UNOFFICIAL ARE UNOFFICIALLY...
When Transcontinental Air Transport ("Lindbergh Line") was formed in 1928 Gene Vidal got his first real job. He made a point of working in every department, learned the business from bottom to the level of assistant general manager. Also he made two fast friends in the company: Publicist Amelia Earhart and General Superintendent Paul ("Dog") Collins. In 1929 a merger shook him and Paul Collins out. But before that happened they had hatched the best idea of their careers-a short airway over a heavily traveled route with frequent schedules and low fares. They sold the idea to Philadelphia Socialites...
...student who enjoys a phonograph record by Kreisler played twice as fast as it was ever meant to be played will enjoy Fine Arts 1d immensely. The only defect in the course is the tremendous speed at which it is given. One half year is all the time allotted to dashing through early Christian art to Medieval art through it to Renaissance art, through Renaissance art to modern art, and finally landing somewhat winded in the lap of a post-Impressionist. Professor Edgell strives nobly to make up for the shortness of the time by grinding out words and witty...
Marked by hard hitting, fast riding, and fast scoring, the opening Varsity polo game with Albert C. Burrage's Candlewood trio at the Commonwealth Armory Saturday evening was won by that team...