Word: fatness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...being accused of criticizing the President. No criticism could have been intended, as I am personally a staunch advocate of the Administration and know full well that the President has done more toward proper housing of the Army than has ever been done before. . . ." By that time, though, the fat was in the fire...
...Whites and practically everybody else in Europe. Every Moscow theatre group has its own hallmark. At the Vakhtangov the hall-mark is a slight caricature of impersonation. "Men with long noses have very long noses, women with large hats have very large hats, thin men are very thin, fat ladies are very fat. They are a little like characters of a Peter Arno album come to life...
...McKinsey revealed that the wholesale division had lost no less than $12,000,000 in the past five years. Butler's President Cunningham, in Florida last week for a quick vacation, must have had a few chuckles over that Field report, for he expects to grab off a fat slice of the business Field has abandoned...
...sell anything, and he stuck to his word. But when Lady Talbot asked him if one of the papers (a letter from Goldsmith) had any value-"What sort of thing? A hundred pounds sort of thing?" -and he replied, 'I think ten times that more like it," the fat was in the fire. What Collector Isham actually paid for the Malahide papers he refused to say; guesses run from $300,000 to $500,000. That was in 1927. Because he cannily bought all the Boswell papers in Malahide Castle, when Lady Talbot three years later discovered another...
...business for several months. Karen has a French friend, Naomi, of the governess type; she too is just engaged. Karen knows and dislikes the fiance, Max, an intense French Jew, does not want to see him again, but Naomi insists. When Karen and Max meet once more, the fat is in the fire-they are in love at a glance...