Word: fastings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sudden a motorcycle cop drove up behind me and says, 'What've you got there?' I saw there wasn't any use arguing so I told him. I said 'O. K. I'm licked'. But he says, 'Wait a minute there, don't go so fast;; let's see what we can do about this. Go ahead back and get in your...
Whether or not the athletic association has adopted the McFadden policy of plenty of fresh air and open spaces, or that time has merely over-taken the repair department has been carefully concealed. Undoubtedly these innovations will add zest to a game that depends on fast foot work, for next to the traditional banana skin, a well placed puddle of water can accelerate matters to an exceptional degree. This should inject some humor into a game which formerly has depended too much on the temper of the players. And squash will not be the first sport which has descended...
General Moses took a fast train to Chicago as other Senate warriors loudly complained that he had reflected not only on the Insurgents but "on their mothers and fathers." General George Norris of Nebraska, seizing a handful of straw from some pottery in an exhibit (see below), waved it over his head and cried: "This packing is probably fodder for us wild jackasses...
...henpecked husband who finally revolts against his wife and gleefully dons his rightful, symbolic trousers. This time he is stirred to action by his extraordinarily pretty third daughter (Bette Davis) who wants to marry a boy whom her mother dislikes and so escape the fate of her two sisters, fast shriveling into spinsterhood. The wedding takes place in the parlor while mother and two elder daughters are at the movies, and father, impregnated with hard cider, has summoned up enough courage to give his consent. Later, of course, the opposition returns and what was funny becomes funnier...
...Sept. 2), Lord Privy Seal James Henry Thomas ("Privy Seal Jim"), Minister in Charge of Unemployment, told the House of Commons that "by next year our trouble will be not how to get customers in Canada but how to get enough ships to take our coal and goods there fast enough to fill their orders...