Word: fatness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last year not the $520,000,000 predicted by ex-Senator Brookhart but a paltry $14,000,000. U. S. businessmen were beginning to realize that Russian recognition, by itself, did not mean fat returns from Russian trade. Within a year the Great Day had faded into grey dusk...
...fashioned sleeve Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera Company drew a surprise one afternoon last week: a Wagnerian soprano who was neither fat nor 40 but a young woman of grace with a strong clear voice in its prime. The new singer was Kirsten Flagstad, a Norwegian who knows how to milk a cow and ski. As Sieglinde in Die Walkure she made the season's outstanding debut...
Henry slides down the banister, with a fat little boy behind him to hit the newel post first...
...Illustrierte Zeitung, promptly called for a secretary, a cablegram blank. Few hours later in Manhattan Hearst's syndicate chief, Joseph Vincent Connolly, received word: "Get Henry." He took the next train for Madison, Wis. There in a feverish half-hour between trains he signed Carl Anderson to a fat contract with King Features Syndicate...
...struck with the idea of electricity for toy trains, he founded Lionel Corp., produced a locomotive, coach and caboose operated by a dry battery for $6. Today, 35 years later, Lionel electric trains start, stop and reverse by remote control. One of President Cowen's prides is the fat 400E, a standard (2¾ in.) "hog," which, with tender, measures 30½ inches and sells...