Word: fats
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...lavish scale, as the society columns of nearly all our daily organs of democratic opinion so eloquently testify. But there cannot be a king without snobbery. Not even the meagerest German princeling, fourth in line of succession to a reline for which no average Iowa farmer would trade his fat acres without boot, could exist a day without it. Taken out of the atmosphere of snobbery, like a fish out of water, he would simply give three gasps, two flops and expire. To talk about a democratic king is to talk the sheerest nonsense. There could no more...
...this jesting is local, which is something very pleasing, and moreover decidedly intelligent--a great deal to say of a humorous paper in these days when Life exists only by virtue of fat Germans and suffragists, when Puck is little more than Semitic propaganda, and when Judge is pabulum for the barber-shop devotees. Lampy's quips, in addition, are courageous and independent...
...ascetics who observe Mr. Hoover's regulations should worry now. The Lampoon today unleashes a special number in commemoration of the wheatless, lightless, heatiess and generally lifeless days that food and fuel administrators have seen fit to decree. If it is still within the law to laugh and grow fat, the meatlessness of the current day ought not to cut down the undergraduate avoirdupois...
...agreeable to note that after our premature and tempestuous rejoicing over the success of the war loan, and our later and yet more tempestuous lamentations that it was to fail, it has now been subscribed with a fat surplus. Again we have been true to our national character, for the American likes to talk, and he talks a great deal; but when he is put to doing a job which must be done, he does...
...France needs men. Abundant opportunity is offered to any or all of the two hundred thousand men whom Mr. Roosevelt declared had volunteered to see service at once. The Foreign Legion has done some ugly work. It has not been pampered too much with leisure in which to grow fat between its decimating battles. There is room in that historic legion for men in whom the desire for action burns so very fiercely that they may not stay to go when our troops...