Word: fasts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...heard of brother Francisco, dashing, sometimes revolutionary aviator Ramón had made headlines. In 1926 he made the first flight from Europe to South America. Later he took part in several rash, poorly timed, badly organized plots against Alfonso XIII. Though respected by some Spanish Republicans, the hard-&-fast Leftist invariably suspected him of exhibitionism...
...Governor General, and Australia declined with thanks. A lot of trouble has turned up in the world since then, however, what with the Italians showing their muscle in the Mediterranean, the Germans down the Danube and the Japanese all over the Far East. It behooves the Empire to stand fast, and a great cementing gesture was made last week when George VI was graciously pleased to appoint H. R. H. the Duke of Kent to go out to Canberra in November 1939 and take over the job George V could not get for Gloucester...
...Chicago. Within the space of its short life, the latter has produced a Breasted for almost every Kittredge, a Millikan for a Whitehead. And if Harvard, regards, itself as the leader in educational, innovations, it may well wink at Chicago's introduction of quarterly sessions, of learn as-fast-as-you-can methods. Europe's unblessed--the great martyrs of Democracy--are divided equally; a Bruening to Harvard, a Benes to Chicago...
...that in the first book many a reader may have been too sickened to notice Author Weidman's strong disapproval of his hero. In this sequel Author Weidman gives Harry a moral shellacking which only an idiot could miss. But before Harry goes down he puts on a fast show. After loafing three months on his last crooked earnings, Harry decides to bounce Martha and go back into the dress business. The trouble is that Martha is a smarter guy than Harry: Before she is through with him he is neglecting the dress business to keep track...
...vessels, burned 62 of them. In Semmes of the Alabama, Author Roberts, a devoted, "unreconstructed" Southerner, tries hard to make Semmes a heroic figure. But Semmes's exploits, unlike those of most Confederate leaders, seem almost as shabby now as they did to Unionists of 1864. The fast, heavily armed Alabama merely overhauled unarmed sailing vessels, stripped and burned them. Semmes fought only two battles, sank the Hatteras and was soundly whipped by the Kearsarge. Giving none of the background of British and American maritime rivalry...