Word: fastings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Near Cincinnati lately, on the estate of Julius Fleischmann Jr., a Mrs. Rockefeller tried trapshooting for the first time. She was surprised and pleased to see one "bird" after another disintegrate as fast and often as she pulled trigger. Those present kept it a secret from Mrs. Rockefeller that behind her while she was shooting stood a crack shot who, each time she cried, "Pull," took aim at the sailing pigeons, waited, shot when she did. Not even persons long used to shooting shotguns can detect by ear the shooting of another shotgun almost simultaneously with their...
...part was a log cabin, where, 54 years and eleven days before, Herbert Clark Hoover had been born. A Mrs. Jennie Scellars, who now owns the house and has declined to sell it to Mrs. Hoover, served up an oldtime Iowa breakfast. On her front porch she drove a fast trade in what a wag called "Hoovernirs...
...appointment, to command the G. O. P.'s farm bureau at Chicago headquarters, of John J. Oglesby. Thereby the mention of Farmers' Friend Lowden, in the West Branch speech, was underscored. Mr. Oglesby was Lieutenant-Governor of Illinois under Governor Lowden (1917-21). They are fast friends. Mr. Oglesby was a leading Lowdenizer before the nomination. Now he agreed heartily to Hooverize. Perhaps his first commission will be to soothe Mr. Lowden's lingering bitterness and bring him, reluctant but resigned, into the fold...
...Johanna Smith, anchored seven miles off Long Beach, Calif. (TIME, Aug. 27.) A statute of 1793, providing forfeiture of a ship engaged in any trade other than that for which licensed, was invoked. The Johanna Smith, licensed for coastal trade, had 13 gaming tables aboard, 38 slot machines, with fast launches to ferry visitors to and from shore...
Essence of Brattism: "Impose reasonable conditions and enforce them . . . firmly. . . . The control of liquor must be human, not superhuman; firm, not rigid; slow, not fast; democratic in aims, but individualistic in application...