Word: fasted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...heart the voters know how he was born to poor parents in Corydon, how his mother left his father in 1902 when Happy was four,* how he sold newspapers and did odd jobs while getting through high school. A 170-pounder, 5 ft. 10½ in., compact and fast on his feet, enormously cheerful and energetic, he arrived at Lexington to enter Transylvania College with "a red sweater, a $5 bill and a smile." He got a job in a laundry, played football, basketball and baseball (captain), charmed the campus by his grin and his singing...
...people attended it every Friday, each making nine devotions in succession to the Virgin, in hope of spiritual or material reward (TIME, Dec. 27). By last week, 50,000 Catholics were thronging the church on Fridays and novenas were being installed in churches throughout the U. S. as fast as the Servites-whose permission, willingly granted, had to be asked before a church could adopt the ritual-were able to get around to direct the opening services. The seven Servite Stations are devoted to the sorrows of Mary, whereas the usual 14 Stations are devoted to the Passion of Christ...
PRELUDE FOR WAR-Leslie Charteris-Crime Club ($2). Characteristic Charteris story in which Simon Templar, the reckless Robin Hood of crime, outwits munitions manufacturers and thwarts a fascist revolution in France-fast-moving, but with the Saint less amusing than in his earlier adventures...
...short, the Brookings thesis holds that industrial management has not progressed as fast or as far in its price policies as it has in its technological skill. Cynics claim that this was because Big Business designed its price policies primarily for monopolistic and profit-hogging reasons. The new Brookings book, Industrial Price Policies and Economic Progress, therefore took as its theme the factors that entered into an executive's choice of certain prices for his company's products. Lion's share of the credit for the first four volumes went to the Institution's president, bald...
Towards his petty criminals John McIntyre shows benevolent amusement. Boys, he implies, will be boys. Sam was just a good-looking, friendly kid selling pop in a ball park until Art, who knew his way around, took him aside and showed him a few angles. Then he went up fast. He acquired a few attendants: Perry and Cork and a sinister character from Scranton named Max. He talked to all the concessionaires in the city and. because of his friendly way, they were glad to use the brand of pop he pushed. He talked to the barbers. He put short...