Word: fatness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Censorship is daughter of Intolerance, and member of a large family of Thou-shalt-nots who thrive and grow fat throughout the land. Who shall deny them their birthright? Shall the Salem witches have died in vain? Shall the ghost of Roger Williams be mute? Shall the eighteenth amendment be robbed at last of its point and meaning? Cotton, Mather rattles his shroud in horror at the mere suspicion that censorship is un-American. The Ziegfeld Follies may be a "National Institution', but one must never forget that censorship was in the field first. Censorship came over in the Mayflower...
...Book. Two undernourished young U. S. Hebrews-one fat, one skinny-came to fame in 1873 for their mutilations of the English language. Music-hall audiences rippled and rocked when they heard, just before an act came on, the plaintive offstage whisper of the fat one (Weber) to the skinny one (Fields)-"Don't push me, Meyer!" When the pair were at the height of their popularity, 20 years ago. they disagreed, separated. Friends called this a "business suicide." This winter, they have returned to the two-a-day, are playing certain Western towns under the management of Keith...
...perhaps including the Dean himself, seized eagerly upon this suggestion. Even a diminutive and far from prominent member of the famed St. Paul's choristers got hold of the idea and made a rhyme about it which he passed around at choir practice behind the cover of a fat hymnbook. It seemed very funny because everyone was supposed to be so solemn...
Undetected, like a shadow in the dead of night. Governor Montagu Norman of the Bank of England made his way to the U. S. Why had he come? What was he doing? Governor Norman was silent. Wall Street magnates blew smoke rings from their fat cigars and looked wise...
Intarvin, an artificial fat, has been fed to diabetic patients without the ill results attendant upon eating ordinary fats, allowing them to gain in weight and strength. It supplements and sometimes hastens the curative action of insulin. It is harmless even if taken continuously in quantity.-Dr. Max Kalin (the inventor), Dr. William J. Gies, Columbia University; Dr. Hattic L. Heft...