Word: fatheads
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After the broadcast, Master of Ceremonies Fadiman undid another sheaf of questions, some new, some missed at previous sessions. This time, Physicist Bernard Jaffe knew what kind of fathead might properly be boiled in oil (a fish called a fathead). Composer-Critic Deems Taylor remembered what musical composition a baby's cry reminded him of (Richard Strauss's Domestic Symphony). Catcher Moe Berg identified Garibaldi's Carbonari. Russel Grouse still thought the football team best suggested by an ocean was C. C. N. Y. (book answer: Tulane's Green Wave). Lillian Gish remembered her Browning better...
...made a nice mess of both their lives. She packs him off "where he belongs," to Father No. 1, who never did run out anyway, is still a city editor. Good shot: the Professor's harum-scarum daughter (Brenda Joyce), who calls all her father's students "Fathead," hearing that Fatheads David and pal have read Joseph Conrad's Victory. Daughter: "Smart fatheads...
...main reason I'm not running is simply because I've only had a four-year crack at this Chronicle job from topside, and being a fathead I think I need a couple of more years anyhow. The dope is I'm sort of a squirt, a very egotistical one-so egotistical that I think I'm smart enough to know I haven't done the job with a newspaper yet. Maybe I'll wait and run for President...
From what I can scrape up, Mr. Fathead doesn't get along too well with Prince Charming. In the morning I notice not many words pass between them. But then Mr. Fathead generally has a headache, and he seems to grow gruffer if he sees Prince Charming smiling and joking...
Today I was in the corridor when Mr. Fathead came up the stairs. He went into the room without even looking at me, and in a minute came out very mad. "What did you do with my ribbon?" he stormed. "Why," I said, "I saw no ribbon, Mr. Fathead. Where was it?" He mumbled something about it being on his desk, and while I was wondering what in the Good Lord's name he wanted with a piece of ribbon, Prince Charming pranced up the stairs. Upon hearing about Mr. Fathead's loss, he laughed, sang something about "Mary...