Word: fatness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...three world championships. In 1914 Philip Ball, late owner of the St. Louis Browns, Oilman Harry F. Sinclair and the Ward Baking Co. backed the organization of a third major league, the Federal League, with clubs in Chicago, Indianapolis, Baltimore, St. Louis, Pittsburgh, Kansas City, Buffalo, Newark, Brooklyn. With fat salary checks they tried to lure players from the two older leagues. When Mack's dissatisfied players demanded more money, he decided to break up the team, sold his famed infield to clubs in his own league. The Federal League lost so much money it was forced to quit...
...right foot by floating the first public offering of International Telephone & Telegraph common stocks. I. T. & T. financing soon got too big for the firm to handle and went to J. P. Morgan & Co., but E. B. Smith enjoyed the reflected glory and a fat slice of every I. T. & T. deal. Some of its other flotations like Roosevelt Field, Inc. and R. Hoe & Co. added nothing to its name, but E. B. Smith managed to avoid the subsequent attention lavished by the Senate Banking & Currency Committee on most of its peers...
...Life was wonderful in those days," he said, "there were so many things one wasn't allowed to do. All the hadn't oughters' were written in a fat rule book, the college Bible...
Just before the play was to begin, the Sealyham shot after a fat biddy with blood in his eye. The idea spread to the five Scotties, and in a few seconds hens were clucking all about the stage looking for shelter...
...Trojan Horse seemed likely to bewilder more readers than it pleased, another Christopher Morley revision of a classic. Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, gave free play to his quotation-loving mind, resulted in a fat, handsome volume that was interesting reading, valuable for reference. The first Bartlett's was published in 1855, when Josiah Bartlett, then a Cambridge, Mass, bookseller, brought out his personal collection of apt phrases to show "the obligations our language owes to various authors for ... familiar quotations which have become 'household words.' " By 1891 Bartlett had published nine revisions; the tenth appeared...