Word: fasts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...prosecutor tried to show that Edith was a fast filly who had saddened her honest mountaineer father with her late hours and citified ways. But he could not shake her story of the fight. It was further corroborated by 11-year-old Sister Mary Catherine who, when twitted by the prosecutor for forgetting certain details, leaned out of the witness chair and yelled: "And you wouldn't remember so good either if you had been as scared as I was that night with Pappy a-yellin' and a-cussin' and Edith a-tryin' to outrun...
With sanctions and the League of Nations monopolizing British news last week, few of George V's subjects realized how fast their Government is rushing forward with its program of rearmed Might. Acutely vexed by this program is Giles Stephen Holland Fox-Strangways, 6th Earl of Ilchester, Baron Ilchester and Strangways. His hobby is swans and the Government has decided to convert a great tract scarcely four miles from Ilchester's famed swannery at Abbotsbury into a nerve-racking "bombing range." It has also decided to turn much of his property in Dorset into one of the world...
...Although [Christy's] style has altered to some extent, its prevailing emphasis is still upon what we conveniently call attributes of the fashionable school of painting. Times may change but the artists of this persuasion hold fast to the bravura surface fireworks...
...Prone to swearing a good deal in a quiet, pleasant way, he never loses his temper, though he is a martinet about detail. When he is in command, his ship must be spotless, his men equally neat. In only one respect is he himself lax-his beard, which is fast-growing, heavy. Hating to shave, he has tried all types of razor, has lately returned to an old-fashioned straightedge...
...earliest proclamation in the collection is of March 9, 1743, and issued by Governor William Shirley, of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, announcing a "Publick Fast" to be held Thursday, April...