Word: fasts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...deficiency since February has averaged 12 inches. Water has been shipped in at 5? a gallon, $4 a tank, and $20 a car. Mines have paid $3,000 a month for their water supply. A proclamation by the Governor of South Carolina called upon citizens of that state to fast and pray for a break in the drought...
...Atlantic City had "a sound endocrine constitution." She wore her hair not shingled but shorn, wore mannish clothes (from B. V. D.'s out) and repulsed all male attention with a temperamental corselet of ice triplex. The reason Gita abhorred men and wanted to be one, was merely psychological. Fast friends of her brutal, gambling father had attempted her when young. Also, her mother had had a grievous cohabitation...
...bones of old mortality. Llewelyn ("Lulu"), whose journal this book is, has best reason: for 16 years his lungs have harbored ghostly, blood-demanding tubercles. Yet Llewelyn is the cheeriest, takes himself least tragically. He lays life's grim intimacies bravely to heart: a fish taken unawares and frozen fast in black pond ice; a drunken quarryman who compares plowing the deep soil to sailing the sea; a wounded white-breasted hawk staked out for torture by African children; a band of bearded woodcutters hupging a fire that flames scarlet among Alpine snows. The genius of the family, Theodore...
...message was not the first indication that the ship was in trouble. Commander John Rogers on the seaplane had reported to Naval listeners that headwinds had forced him to open his throttles in order to keep his headway?that his petrol tanks were consequently emptying too fast. This message of distress was regarded as distinctly alarming. It meant that the Frenchmen would retain for a while longer the non-stop flight record. Why, it might actually means that the Rogers and his men were in danger...
...youth, running as hard as he could, disappeared behind the hill; reemerged, a short time after, upon another; played one of his polo-like strokes-was off again. The two dotards looked at each other. Without a word, but trembling slightly, they turned and began to hurry as fast as their gout-stiffened limbs would carry them, toward the clubhouse. Who but a thief or a nonmember would run around the course as if he were afraid of his shadow? Who but a rumdum or a simpleton would play his ball without taking a stance? It was clearly a matter...