Word: fasting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hampshire, Ohio, the Rev. Ray Dotson, "Holy Roller" Methodist, so wailed and shrieked, so frothed and grovelled, that he got Fred Conrad, a 200-lb. traction worker, all worked up. Fred Conrad went home to "save" his father. The father protested. So 200-lb. Fred Conrad went on a fast. He would, he cried, fast for 40 days and nights "like Jesus did." He would save every soul in New Hampshire...
Said the Rev. Combe: "Our plan is, I know, a bit amateurish but with a few motor cars (which we hope will be given us) and a small fleet of fast motor boats (which we are trying to get) we hope to reach even the most neglected and hardened rum runners...
...international intrigue, later 20th century, Author Richard Keverne poaches on E. Phillips Oppenheim's preserves. Mystery runs so high, so thick, so fast, that it is guaranteed by a sealed ending?money back if you can resist breaking the seal of The Havering Plot (Harper...
...slender, black-haired Manhattanite, Racqueteer Sheldon learned at Eton his fast, dashing, strong-on-the-backhand game...
...eight consecutive victories the Harvard team has caged 35 goals. W. B. Wood '32 and F. R. Stubbs Jr. '32 form a brilliant passing pair, with Stubbs scoring consistently on fast, rising shots Potter Palmer '32, the speediest member of the sextet, and Captain C. C. Cunningham '32 are both expert body-checkers who have broken up many determined assaults on their territory. C. D. Draper '32 has allowed only three shots to get past him into the Harvard goal