Word: fasts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Vetoes. Already President Coolidge's occasional troubles with Congress are fast fading from the public memory. His vetoes were not many but they were notable. Most of them were vetoes of minor bills, for the sake of dear economy, and were not overridden. The soldier bonus bill of 1924 was passed over his veto. He twice appointed Charles Beecher Warner to be Attorney-General and the Senate twice rejected the appointment. But he twice vetoed farm relief bills which called for large governmental expenditures, and Congress did not override him. An increase of pay for postal employes he vetoed...
...minutes later they glanced at each other, startled. Was that a police gong? Into the curb eased a car, blue and fast, like the Detective Bureau's. Through the office door strode four men. Two, in police uniforms, swung submachine guns. Two, in plain clothes, carried stubby shotguns...
...brunette of perfect symmetry and French antecedents. New York first discovered her in A Kiss in a Taxi in 1925. Since then she has played in The Barker (in which she met Actor Norman Foster, whom she married), The Pearl of Great Price, The Mulberry Bush, The Ghost Train, Fast Life, and Tin Pan Alley. She has gifts which the Guild undoubtedly will magnify...
True Heaven (Fox). Generals signing armistices should work fast, should scribble their names as fast as they can, because-what about the firing squads, the fellows waiting for death in front of leveled rifles? The news has to get there in time. Suppose you are an English officer, and you fall in love with a beautiful girl, but when you are made a spy and sent to Germany you find she is a spy too, but on the other side, and she has to choose between you and her flag, and chooses her flag, as you want her to deep...
...fast, sir!" said Long Legs, "I will rise and let you through...