Word: fasts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Just as the German airship Graf Zeppelin hovered over her home port Friedrichshafen last week, the German Lloyd seaship Columbus moored fast to her Manhattan dock. Aboard her was James Leslie Kincaid, retired brigadier-general of the New York National Guard. And while German crowds howled their hochs at the Graf Zeppelin's safe, record-breaking return, General Kincaid growled his grouch at U. S. aviation...
...picture book of other U. S. motors and machines. General Kincaid was ashamed. "I felt," said he last week, "like turning up my coat collar and slinking away." He noted too that "Germany has 60 cities linked by air transport now. Over this network is maintained a constant fast transport of mail, passengers and freight. No other country in the world has anything to compare with...
...Washington Post, circulation 80,000,* published by Edward B. McLean, fast friend of the late President Harding. Reasons: "After careful and impartial study ... the protective tariff . . . Prosperity...
Since the Mohammedans are perfectly within their legal rights, an extreme recourse was resorted to last week, by Abraham Isaac Kook. Chief Rabbi of Palestine. Weeping copious tears Colonel* Kook decreed a general fast day and renewed mourning by all Jews...
...Monday, Oct. 15, the exchange opened with Montgomery Ward the centre of all eyes. Rumors flew fast. Traders heard that good news was on the way. Monday saw Montgomery Ward leap to 304¾. Tuesday added 1¼ points...