Word: fats
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Slender Second Secretary Bjenany Bay belongs to Turkey. For TIME, a fat error...
King Ahmed Fuad of Egypt, fat and happy, now on an official tour of Europe, last week paid a surprise visit to the League of Nations at Geneva. He caused a mild panic among the staid members of the Secretariat. Little used to entertaining pompous monarchs who travel as does Egypt's Fuad with a small army of retainers, Secretariat members thought only in the nick of time to provide a throne for the dusky, red-fezzed potentate. Acting Secretary General J. A. M. C. Avenol, flustered in the absence of his chief, suave, assured Sir Eric Drummond, madly...
...debates, rule tactfully on parliamentary procedure. In return he has a stone palace overlooking the Thames to live in (a wing of the Houses of Parliament), a salary of $25,000 a year, a further allowance for "costumes and effects" of $5,000, and an annual present of a fat buck and a fat doe from His Majesty's Master of the Buckhounds...
...working on Sundays. Generous, Mr. Ford was also astute. For the more efficient became the railroad, the more rapidly Ford coal moved north from Ironton and Ford autos moved south from Detroit. And, though the selling price of the road was not announced, there was no doubt of a fat Ford profit. After the Ford improvements, the Interstate Commerce Commission valued the road at something over $11,000,000. Mr. Ford's figure was something over $23,000,000. Probably the sale was made at closer to the Ford than to the I.C.C. estimate...
Example of Author Bedel's style (description of a fat lady in distress): "The gelatine of her neck quivered, and her hand, describing a vast detour, arrived at her throat...