Word: fasted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...laws to society as it is we meet with stubborn resistance. It is as if men were frightened to see how far they have departed from the ways of their fathers and how impossible lit was to go back, and had therefore determined to hold fast to something. Religion, paternal authority, the family, all may go; but at least we still have the Constitution and the Supreme Court, and so long as we cling to them we may feel sure that in the field of Government we shall still be ruled by the wisdom of our great grandfathers...
When the bank holidays were ever the Coop held checks which had been returned from 255 banks in 38 states. This would indicate a liberal policy in cashing checks before the crisis. According to a high official last night, the Coop will extend its check cashing service as fast as the soundness of banks throughout the country can be determined...
...Dresel, his 50 officers & crew stood at salute, Erection Foreman V. W. ("Red") Coffelt ordered "Up ship!" His workmen slacked off their cables, let the Macon's partial load of helium buoy her into the air some five feet. Another command and she was hauled down again, made fast. The Navy's second airship scouting cruiser had taken the air. She will remain in the dock a few weeks more for finishing touches...
Paderewski. The high-backed, red-seated chair without which Pianist Ignace Jan Paderewski refuses to play was folded up in Chicago last week, set up again in Milwaukee, then packed for Ann Arbor. This year the 72-year-old pianist is giving concerts as fast as he can travel. Unlike other years, he will not stop to rest at his ranch in Paso Robles, Calif. His private car is hitched to one fast train after another. When it stands sidetracked, trainmen still gather around it to hear the old man tirelessly practice his trills and runs, sound out his smashing...
...wears sleek clothes with severe insouciance. She acts with intelligent assurance, speaks in a strong, flat, curiously pleasant voice with the inflections of a polite upbringing in Hartford, Conn. Miss Hepburn did her first acting at Bryn Mawr, where she graduated in 1929, acquired the defect of talking too fast. Among other requisites for a U. S. Garbo, she has greenish eyes, red hair, second-hand car, distaste for socialites, willingness to wear overalls...