Word: fasts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Foster learned fast, and Hurley began to think he had another Billy Petrolle, the famed Fargo Express, whom he had developed and managed in the good old days...
...through their special arrangements of such numbers as Schubert's Impromptu in B-flat Major, the finale of Prokofiev's Classical Symphony, the first movement of Bach's Concerto in D Minor and some Chopin études -one to show that four pianos can ripple as fast as one-the near-sellout audience thumped their hands for more...
...Bert Baker, one of the biggest U.S. independent dealers in the business, had gone $96,000 into the red since November and his huge lot looked empty. He had only 110 cars on display v. nearly 400 in November. Like other dealers, Bert had been unloading his stock as fast as he could, even at a loss. He had cut his payroll from 161 to 31; even so, his men had time, as well as cars, on their hands...
...Cornell Woolrich, competent playing by twelve-year-old Bobby Driscoll and four relatively unknown actors, and some expert camera work in the brownstone jungles of Manhattan's East Side tenements. Smoothly mortised and joined by Director Ted Tetzlaff and Producer Frederic Ullman Jr., The Window emerges as a fast little thriller full of grade A qualities...
...Author Wylie). His dank hair is trailing over his forehead. "I'm in love," he cries. "And the girl's a whore." Character Wylie, whose air of learned sang froid is notable throughout the novel, takes one look at the girl, name of Marcia, and makes another fast diagnosis: she is a raving nymphomaniac and wholly unsuited to a career of nuclear research...