Word: fatness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...election as district attorney or even to Congress. But he decided to run for the hack job of Sheriff of Erie County. Doing so meant giving up his legal career for three years, but during those three years the sheriff's fees would reach a good fat sum, perhaps $40,000, at any rate much more than could be made at law. So down among the bars where he sometimes caroused between bouts of terrific hard work, word was passed around that "Big Steve" was out for sheriff. The Buffalo Courier cried: "He is at the same time...
Independently arrived at, Cartoonist Low's bulbous "Colonel Blimp" uttered his first upper-class fatuities in the London Evening Standard in April, 1934. Cartoonist Batchelor's fat, silk-hatted "Old Deal" first appeared in the New York Daily News...
...argument, while the next man indignantly nudges one of them with his hip. The first seated figure on the left is delicately poking the back of the man in front to ask what is going on, and the latter is trying to see over the towering headdress of the fat man in front of him. Two of the seated figures meditatively finger their beads. The last on the right, losing interest, toys with his earplug...
...Lewis' original edict that not a line of his script must be changed, Denver was permitted to transfer the Vermont locale to Colorado and in Detroit the action was laid in a factory district. In Tampa, the play was given in Spanish with the action in Cuba. A fat advance sale in most cities indicated that It Can't Happen Here would get a thorough hearing. In Manhattan speculators were selling tickets at prices above the 55? top until chased to cover by WPAgents...
...continue the late Sidney Smith's Andy Gump for the New York News-Chicago Tribune syndicate. Comic Artist Goldberg was vexed at the idea of drawing another cartoonist's characters. Next thing the trade knew, Rube Goldberg was working up a new feature whose principal character, a fat female clown, was christened Lala Palooza after consultation with Yale's Pundit William Lyon Phelps. By last week, with 75 papers signed up* by a new syndicate headed by Frank Jay Markey, it was evident that editors expected from the new Goldbergian feature the old Goldbergian...