Word: fatness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...museums and they also have been most useful in supporting, perhaps more in good times than at present, the contemporary artists worthy of patronage. One must, paradoxically enough, be somewhat of an idealist to be a dealer nowadays. The lean years have an unfortunate way of eating into the fat years. But for the man who wants to be connected with art and at the same time earn a living, the dealer's field can often offer quite a satisfactory means of compromise...
...CASE OF THE COUNTERFEIT EYE- Erie Stanley Gardner - Morrow ($2). Hard-case Perry Mason steps briskly into his sixth case (the retainer not so fat as formerly), does a bit of quick charity, slyly tricks "The Law," sleeps for once, and emerges triumphant, ready to plunge into the next maelstrom of chicanery and crime...
...acre ranch at Santa Rita. Calif., or on his 350-acre farm at Sibleyville, near Rochester. In Illinois, where he is the State's largest individual land owner, he owns the biggest corn farm in the world, and his AAA checks for crop reductions run to fat figures...
...been bankrupt two years before. Oil and gas men who took the trouble to inquire about his life found great gaps in the Parish career. He had bummed his way around the West riding the rails. He had set himself up in machinery business in Chicago. The War dumped fat marine contracts into his lap. but the post-War collapse nearly ruined him. He and his brother had procured an old sailboat, picked up peaches at night in Michigan for 90? a bu. and sold them in Chicago next morning for $3. Finally Frank Parish had turned up in Kansas...
...coffins, but some of them are overyoung to be the brides of heaven. Among these, Dolores' influence seems sinister if not definitely devilish. The prioress thinks she can make her into a good nun. But then young Pedro comes prowling around the walls, sees Dolores, and the fat is in the fire...