Word: fasts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...History's repetitions prove that after excessive hostility one may expect unreasoning cult. Certainly Cezanne has passed through these phases; he has been the sanctified father, rather indiscriminately, of all the post-impressionist movements. Now he is fast becoming "good form", among the hidebound conservatives. No museum would dare to be without a Cezanne. In Paris, a retrospective exhibition of the artist's work is on view at Berheim Fils, Place de la Madeleine, with an admission charge to swell the fund for a proposed monument to him. It is encouraging to know that the artist engaged to achieve...
...matter what happens to me, the cause of progress, of democracy, is going to triumph. But nothing is going to happen to me. I am a tough citizen, as our Republican and Democratic opponents will find me. If you stand fast in this convention, my friends, they can't beat us from now to Doomsday...
Almost at the crack of the starting pistol Yale shot a quarter of a length ahead of Harvard. For half a mile the race was fast and close, but little by little the Elis left their rivals behind and the race became slower. It soon became clear that the Blues were taking things easy and no effort at speed was made until the last quarter-mile, when the Yale crew made a final but unnecessary spurt which sent them to victory in a majestic and exultant sweep, four lengths ahead of the Crimsons. Then the Blue crew for the fourth...
...critics were seen busy analysing the play of Helen Wills and comparing her to the Frenchwoman, Suzanne Lenglen. The general opinion was that Helen was not as fast as Suzanne but that she was a harder hitter. The American girl was also thought foolish to play in such an important tournament before familiarizing herself with the slower British balls and other strange conditions by playing in several minor tournaments...
Once on my day off while standing at the window of my room in a hotel I looked down just in time to see an accident in which several people were killed. I seized my hat and got away from that place as fast as I could. When I returned to the hotel I found that there had been about 20 telephone calls for me from the office. Not for $25 per week do I do extra work to keep the pocket book of W. R. Hearst watered. I've worked for all sorts of outfits and found them about...