Word: fatness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Schenzvit, ostensibly a land agent, was charged with murder. Arrested with him was a crony, Joseph Miller, a Nazi agent employed by the Third Reich to prevent Jews in Palestine from getting proscribed money out of Germany. Schenzvit had made a fat living during the Chaco War between Bolivia and Paraguay, by selling arms to both sides. He also shipped girls to South America, was still doing so until his arrest. Schenzvit and Miller met in Palestine, went into the arms-racket together, had a neat arrangement whereby Schenzvit sold guns to the Jews, Miller to the Arabs. The murdered...
...caricatured as Don Quixote exclaiming to Sancho Panza Garner: "Seest thou not yon fortress of privilege, yon castle of finance?" ("Them's windmills. Boss." said Sancho.) Next he was Pharaoh, telling ''Little Joseph" Wallace: "I had a dream last night. There were seven nice fat budgets all printed in black ink and along came seven scrawny budgets all printed...
American Men of Science is the U. S. Who's Who of scientific learning. The fifth and latest edition (1933) is a fat volume listing some 20,000 names, of which about 1,000 are starred with an asterisk, to designate "leading scientific workers," i. e., those chosen by election among men of standing in their respective fields. Most U. S. scientists covet the star as a signal honor, but the star system itself has repeatedly been criticized as unfair and misleading...
...Hunt, who she said had "petrified" and "hypnotized" her. (Likewise her father said he had intended to kill Hunt, instead shook his hand, feeling "the tremendous power of this man and Father Divine.") But at week's end no G-man throughout the U. S. had yet found Fat John Wuest Hunt to arrest...
...cinema of a growing plant. In the last scene the whole family have come together in a big informal party. Eleanor, noted now for her rambling tongue and inability to finish a sentence, is over so. Rose, the baby, is stout and deaf. Milly is as fat as her jovial husband, who "swayed from side to side as if his benevolence rolled about in him. He was like an old elephant who may be going to kneel." The once-lovely Kitty is now "one of those well-set-up rather masculine old ladies," and the widow of a Governor-General...