Word: fats
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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When last we had intimate and martial dealings with England, George III, King of the House of Hanover, held in his fat and unregal hand the sceptre of that nation. With what ardor our free born Americans despised him, the stupid German lordling! How the hearts of our Revolutionary heroes seethed with contempt of his bigotry and his blindness...
...knowledge that we are called upon to fight as a nation in arms, rather than as an honest broker for braver peoples, may work some havoc to our calm peace, and our pride in our fat prosperity. But we will gather from that knowledge a new consciousness of our former strength. We will awaken to the call for sacrifice, and give our very utmost for that cause which we have undertaken...
...beautiful coats in London." At times it seemed little more than a rich succession of grunts, growls, "By Gads," "demnition sirs," but even out of these husky trifles a man of Mr. Drew's talented staginess can produce a characterization. Next to the star, Miss Alison Skipworth, as a fat and vulgar Lady Clavering, is most worth seeing. Mr. Charles Kennedy was exceedingly funny as one of those preposterous stage Irishmen "made in England." The real Irishman is something so appalingly different from the invention that sometimes he has to be stood up against a wall and shot. CUTHBERT WRIGHT...
...celestial part of the paradise affair. She not only is young and lovely, but her dancing is of the best. "But why," wailed all connoisseurs of this sort of thing, "is she only allowed on the stage for so few precious minutes?" Admirable query! Mr. Teddy Webb becomes a fat German with success; Miss Cleo Mayfield has a well-practised, tough drawl, and Miss Vivienne Segal is nicely demure...
However much Christmas may signify to children as a time of gift-receiving, and to college students as a period for idling and waxing fat on the delights of the home kitchen, yet its inner and true meaning should in no way be forgotten...