Word: fatness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...contrived by dragging in a hero-tramp with a fraternity pin, two trig scoundrels right out of Horatio Alger, a sleepy attorney who makes small-town small talk, a Chicago magnate who turns out to be a detective. Fists fly, autos are stolen, the big dam gets dynamited, ruining fat Pence. The Hollises ride the flood back to prestige. For variety's sake, the hero's grandfather leaves him a million and a half. Still, it can be read...
Last week Mr. N. W. Fradd, director of physical education, announced a new class for the big men of the college. Yes, a fat man's class. The idea scanned well: Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays at 4 o'clock was not beyond the fattest of the fat, and from 6000 students a large turnout was expected...
...Ship discipline is occasionally weakened by this influx of society scions. I never heard a man swear like the bos'n who saw a fat first cabin passenger fall on the neck of one of the deck-hands. She happened to be the aunt of one of his fraternity brothers...
...Insull has permitted the casting of mediocre stars in fat roles. Mary McCormick is given such parts as Mimi in Boheme, Nedda in Pagliacci, Marguerite in Faust?all these roles being quite beyond...
...Scilly Isles, a flight of airplanes soared into the air from their seagoing carriers. For several miles they whirred their way through the morning stillness to a spot where H. M. S. Monarch bobbed like a bottle on the rippling swell. As each machine passed over, a large, fat bomb was dropped; for the Monarch was to be sunk in accordance with the terms of the Washington Arms Treaty...