Word: fatness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Edward VII as an adipose angel complete with lyre or as the fat-man wonder at a circus...
...want to know where the circus freaks come from? The Billboard will tell you. "WANTED for 20-in-l-FREAKS. At all times. Glass- Blower, Sword Swallower, Fat Woman, Punch and Judy, Tattooed Lady...
...fat apathy of this place is appalling. (I think I have noted this down somewhere before). Only yesterday I borrowed the name of one of the more liberal student organizations to run off on a number of placards announcing a discussion on present-day education in Sever Hall. They may be surprised when they get the printer's bill, but everyone must learn sooner or later that nothing conres free in this world. And this evening when I went at the appointed hour there were altogether twenty-five men in the room and three freshmen, including myself...
...hysterical mob rule, the just for revenge against 'the scab', and the quick change from hate to respect for their enemy after the fires have died down is unsurpassable. In conclusion a word should be said about the drawing of some of the characters. Pegano and "Ma" Pegano the fat Italians who run a very questionable hotel are priceless; Mrs. Worth, an old English lady with a longing for Devon is excellent, while it will be very hard to forget the Reeces, Mrs. Reece unreal, brittle, and colorless as a wax doll, and Mr. Reece with his ever-lasting fear...
...Pinney's family consists first of his wife, "the mollusk," fat, superstitious, whose voice "held the habitual tone of a bagpipe collapsing." Then there is Mrs. Crum, hard-working mother-in-law, whose voice was "an echo of the spirit of '76," a not altogether unamiable creature. Young Eddie follows the general literary pattern of small boys. He tries to chloroform the cat, gets bad marks at school, is beloved. The daughter, Adelaide, is the high spot of the Pinney family. She is gifted with a budding intelligence which begins to blossom under the beneficent influence of her pleasant...