Word: fastings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...went on trial at 11:30 a. m., pleaded guilty (with Cline) at 12:15 p. m., started a year's sentence at 12:50 p. m. Exactly 16 hrs. 35 min. elapsed between his arrest and the beginning of his sentence-a record. Remarked Capone: "They work fast here...
...15th that she definitely stopped the last Collett attempt to win back the morning's lead. Glenna Collett had taken a brilliant four. Miss Wethered had to sink an 18-foot putt to halve. She putted. For the first twelve feet the ball rolled so fast that it made a white line on the green. Then it slowed, took minutes and minutes. Finally it dropped into the hole in the turf. Miss Collett managed to halve the next hole but on the 17th she lost. Score: 3 up. 1 to go. When Miss Wethered won her last hole...
...million men and women who previously read few. if any, magazines. His tabloid Graphic, though not first in its field, out-tabloided the other tabloids and found its own public among people who read newspapers only for thrills and will gladly dispense with the news if the thrills come fast enough. And now, since the Stock Market has become of interest to the People, it is Publisher Macfadden who provides the People's Stock Market paper...
Coach Sullivan's fast boatload of oarsmen will be greatly handicapped by the loss of their stroke man Donough Prince '31, who will be prevented from entering the race on account of an unavoidable engagement. The flying featherweights will be stroked by either Captain F. E. Farnsworth '29 who has been rowing at No. 6 all season, or by T. N. Perkins Jr. '31, No. 2 man. Perkins was in the stroke berth at the first of the season before Prince displaced him, and he is at present the most likely candidate for pacesetter on Saturday...
...Maryland's Governor Ritchie, nor Will Rogers, whose pocket was picked of four mutuel tickets, thought of the Klan as they watched what Dr. Freeland was about. They were all interested in seeing what horse would win the famed Preakness horse-race. Dr. Freeland, who is a big fast three-year-old horse out of Toddle by Light Brigade, humped his shoulders and won the race in a rushing finish...