Word: fatness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...believe that the communists are an erudite aggregation who predict revolution without advocating it. One is reminded of the classic morn when Poppea in her arrogance called Cleopatra a courtesan. Indeed, according to Mr. Strachey, it is not the communists who knock off the proverbial chip, but the fat capitalist who grinds down the worker to the depths of poverty and fifth...
First delving revealed that there was only $6,000 surplus for 1033-34, which was taken as a typical year. This fat would seem to explodo the rumor which in heard now and then to the effect that the University rooms huge profits on room rents...
...were first stationed. There we stood. An army of boys and young men. . . . An army of peace, an army of hundreds of different nationalities. Swedish Americans, English, Wops, Hunkies, Polocks,' Jews. Rich men's sons, poor men's sons, working side by side, digging, planting, grubbing. Fat boys, thin boys, tall boys, short boys, handsome boys with curly hair, ugly lads with straight and greasy locks. Boys with spectacles, men dressed in warm, snug clothes. Men dressed in torn and ragged sweaters and trousers. Ex-clerks, ex-newsboys, ex-factory workers, ex-jobbers. I quote from this...
Irreverent operagoers will always giggle to see fat, formal singers decked with feathers and emitting feeble whoops. Nor were many impressed with the Metropolitan's stiff, loud-lunged "Puritans" who choired in Howard Hanson's Merry Mount. In Boston next week and in Manhattan nine days later audiences will at least see and hear something different...
ANOTHER important boy from rural mountain parts--with face and hair of reddish hue, is Thomas L. Riley. Fat pencil in hand, he's the man who has put such people as Lowell Thomas, Ruth Etting, and the NBC Honeymooners on the air. His job is not performed at the microphone. His pencil may cross out one of Lowell Thomas lines. When the orchestra gets its cue for one of Ruth Etting's songs, Tom Riley, late of the University of Kentucky, is the man who penciled it in. Mr.Riley, in short, is a producer...