Word: fatness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Significance. Her severest critics have never suggested that Mrs. Wharton is not the most finished U. S. novelist of the country. But they have regarded the fruits of her work as hothouse produce-glossy plums of culture, fat melons of class, clipped hedges of morality. The flavor of irony in this latest offering indicates that even hothouse produce can be kept fairly virile...
Then on the 18th (the 108th of the tournament for those two) it was Macfarlane 72 and in the cup; Jones 71 and ten feet away, after a pitch from the pit. Fat Legs smiled, took his stance, struck his ball, missed by inches...
...Farrell, husky Willie Mehlhorn, tired, chagrined, heartsick Cyril Walker, the deposed champion, to whom the title had brought little joy in the year he had held it. Now they were playing an extra 18 holes to decide it-Thin Legs Willie Macfarlane, Oak Ridge professional (Tuckahoe, N. Y.), and Fat Legs Robert T. Jones Jr., Atlanta amateur. It was, extra nervous strain and labor such as there was in 1923 between Jones (who won) and wee Bobby Cruickshank of Shackamaxon. Only more...
...situation unprecedented in U. S. open championships was resolved by officials, who ruled that another sweltering 18 holes must be played. Out they trudged, after cooling drinks and luncheon. People said: "Thin Legs cannot stand it. He will sweat and sicken. Here will count the beef of Fat Legs...
Thin Legs and Fat Legs...