Word: fasting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...House was interrupted for more than an hour. The Speaker uttered, for the first time in a decade, an antique command: "Let candles be brought in!" When debate was recommenced by candlelight, jocund Members testified to the inconsequence of the proceedings by blowing out the candles as fast as they were lighted, until it became necessary to adjourn the House while electricians tinkered...
...Premier Bratiano, writing with iron diligence, had composed and signed a short will (leaving everything to his wife and son Georges), and had written notes to each of his Ministers, to the Regents, and to members of the Royal Family. With these duties fulfilled, his strength ebbed fast, and shortly Patriarch Miron Cristea administered last rites...
Promoting a new brand of cigarets in the U. S. is vastly difficult. Smoking habits must be broken, tastes changed. Established brands hold their customers fast-R. J. Reynolds' "Camels," Liggett & Meyers' "Fatimas" and "Chesterfields," American Tobacco's "Lucky Strikes" and "Mela-chrinos" and Philip Morris' "Marl-boroughs." Each sells 75 million to more than 100 million a day. To join this phalanx, not especially to disrupt it, Continental Tobacco recently dressed its new cigaret "Barking Dog" with the strong armor of advertising. So far "Barking Dogs" success is indeterminable. More recently United Cigar Stores...
...first met the stranger face to face. Delirious with fever, Dundee tossed on his bed. They thought that Dundee might die. Then the stranger appeared and spoke to the lad: "Things are not very certain with you and if you want to take my advice, you had better hold fast to the bed. If you are not very careful, Dundee, it will slip away from under you." So Dundee held fast to the bed and soon was well...
...degree of Doctor of Letters; last week she celebrated her 100th birthday in Sherwood, N. Y., where she lives, saying: "Both boys and girls are better than they were fifty years ago. . . . When I was a girl all boys thought that it was the thing to do to be fast and impertinent. . . . The girls in my youth were neither to be seen nor heard. . . . I am glad to have lived 100 years. . . . I intend to keep on . . . enjoying life. . . . I have fought for many things in my life: abolition of slavery, education, woman suffrage, temperance. Those victories have been...