Word: fasts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Coach Mitchell, believing that the intensive practice that his team has been having recently, has brought his charges around too fast, declared a holiday yesterday, and decreed that the Crimson ball players should journey to Braves Field to witness the opening game of the Braves-Giant series...
...While soliciting advertisements," he said, "I came into contact with some older men who have become fast friends in many instances acquaintanceships formed in this way have proved of great benefit and value throughout my life...
...third policeman announced that 100 "hunger artists" were waiting in the chief's outer office. Each desired a license to fast publicly in a glass case. Each hoped to break the 44-day German professional fasting record, now held by one Herr Jolly. Simultaneously came a wire from Leipzic with the news that a local faster had been caught sucking nourishment through a rubber tube on the 26th day of his fast...
...which he and his fellow travelers are members. They had come to Manhattan for a ten-day sitting, the first they ever held in the U. S. The lean gentleman was Colonel Rookes Evelyn Bell Crompton, who takes pardonable pride, not only in his Boer War decorations and his fast game of squash, but in having founded the commission...
...than exaggerations of college life similar to "Brown of Harvard" as responsble for such a remark as made the other day by a professor at Ohio Wesleyan University to the effect that the American college student of today resembles "an emotional flat tire due to over-stimulation cause by fast living." Unfortunately, as usual in these reflections, no supporting evidence is given so that any rebuttal is out of the question. All we can do is to take these cubistic portraits in the good-humor that Thomas K. Beecher said made all things tolerable. --Cornell Daily Sun, April...