Word: fatness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Riverside Drive, Kikuta Nakagawa, one of the many Japanese artists who display their jocose and oriental sneers in the Independents' salon, neatly portrayed a grotesque fat woman walking on the path and leading by the hand a little child who was, one could presume, one of many...
...Fat Woman...
...Jamaica, L. I., one Mrs. Florence Schlenbaum, weight 580 lbs., appeared in court. She was charged with leaning against Mrs. Katherine Link, a neighbor, "She called me a large, fat, red-hot mamma . . . in the heat of the moment, perhaps I did get too close to her . . ." said Mrs. Schlenbaum and paid a fine of $25. Then she waddled slowly away, accompanied by her sister, Anna, weight...
...Abduction from the Seraglio" will be the performance of the American Opera Company at the Hollis Street Theatre this evening. It is a comdy with a romantic background interspersing speech with song, in which two lovers and the Sultan are the romantic personages, while the keeper of the harem, fat and drunken, and a sportive maid provide the humorous element...
...seem to become more appreciative of Shakespeare. 'The Taming of the Shrew' seemed to us particularly well adapted to modernizing. The original version, one of the most amusing farces of the Elizabethan stage, contained many 'local gags'. All example is the passage in the induction about 'Marian Hocket, the fat ale-wife of Wincot'. Shakespeare, without a doubt, changed 'Wincot' to the name of whatever town he was playing in, and made 'Marian Hocket' some local character. Thus he heightened the farcical element, and this can be best conveyed to an American audience by making it typically American, by modernizing...