Word: fastens
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...great City of Purity is working up. First it smote Dreiser, a contemporary, but for that reason not a sufficiently illustrious scalp. Hence it was found necessary to go back 170 years, to fasten upon an author who has indubitably stood the test of time. Shakespeare's turn is next, we see it coming! Daily Princetonian
...life itself seems to be. A Midwestern youth who wants to be an architect takes his greatest satisfaction in the fact that he is free, that he may defy his drab background, and do as he pleases in becoming great. Then, one moonlit night, a girl's arms fasten him, innocently, generously, but so tightly that he can never escape. He tries, of course, but finds that his ambition has been diluted by emotion. He settles down in the environment he hates, trapped, but sure that he will not vegetate as all the others have done before...
...Land"' is meant the strongly Democratic northern counties of New Jersey, dominated by the Hudson County machine of Boss-Mayor Frank Hague of Jersey City. A typical complication of the election was seen last week in Hudson and Essex Counties. N. J. Republicans had been 'trying to fasten shame on Boss Hague. They obtained a new election law and challenged some 40,000 names on the heavy registration .'lists', as illegal. The Democrats retaliated -by charging that in Atlantic City, a Re publican stronghold. 2,370 names were il legally registered, including names of dogs, cats...
...enforcement of all laws. ... I am not in favor of a national amendment which should force twelve or fifteen great States into a sumptuary system which the public opinion and the real practices of the people of those States would not support. I think it is most unwise to fasten upon the United States a prohibitory system under the excitement of the War, which I do not hesitate to say every sensible supporter of Prohibition in the end will regret...
...loved and loyal wife who sailed for Australia with me a week after our marriage, and who has been a good shipmate during these many years"-has an exciting chapter "Fishy" ending with a quoted instruction for "landing" the biggest possible swordfish aboard a dory in the open ocean: "Fasten his tail over the gunwale to the afterthwart; put his sword over your shoulder; put your big finger in his eyeball; grab him with your other hand near his tail; when she rolls to leeward pull hard as the boat rolls back, and the 'Cot damn fish...