Word: fatness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Such are a few of Mr. Lawrence's more consecutive pronouncements. He proclaims with some justice Melville's Moby Dick the greatest book of the sea ever written. But he says of Whitman: "Walt's great poems are really huge, fat tomb-plants, great, rank, graveyard growths"; and then: " Whitman was the first heroic seer to seize the soul by the scruff of her neck and plant her down among the potsherds." He is even able to read the darkness of acute sensual passion into the Leatherstocking Series...
Lord Birkenhead: "Weekending at Locust Valley, L.I., the guest of Paul D. Crayath (attorney), I played golf at Piping Rock with Percy R. Pyne, II, Harold S. Vanderbilt and another man. I wore a baby blue sweater and long dark trousers and smoked a fat cigar. At the ninth hole rain overtook...
Insulin, most talked of medical discovery of the century, now has a rival for treating diabetes-intarvin, a form of artificial fat that can be eaten and digested by diabetic patients. It was discovered by Dr. Max Kahn, associate in biological chemistry at the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, in collaboration with Dr. Ralph H. McKee, professor of chemical engineering at Columbia. "Intarvin," meaning "intermediate fat," is so named because one molecule of it contains 17 carbon atoms instead of the 16 or 18 usual in ordinary fats. This is the first successful commercial manufacture of a fat...
...Steinach, who claims to have performed 85 of the operations himself, made very rosy predictions in an address at Berlin last week. Indefinite prolongation of life by a series of Steinach operations is well within the bounds of possibility, he said, asserting that thin men might be made fat, and fat men thin, the timbre of the voice transformed, and arterio -sclerosis cured. Steinach himself is expecting to undergo his operation shortly, it is said, though...
...Shawl with the only undersexed hero in recent fiction?goods books? books not even a reviewer would sell second-hand?the first half of The Judge?Lady into Fox?Through the Wheat?A Pocketful of Poses? Beasts, Men and Gods?letters by Franklin K. Lane?by Walter Hines Page?fat, interesting volumes and no time to read them...