Word: fats
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Wrecker of Cabinets. The bitterest years fast followed the happiest. Returning to Paris in the last days of fat Napoleon Ill's tottering empire, the Young Tiger was just in time to gnash impotent jaws as Bismarck's Prussians conquered with "blood and iron" at Sedan, then tramped on to Paris. The pomp, the swagger, the burning shame lit a blaze of hate in Clemenceau which nothing ever quenched. Bismarck, Wilhelm II, Stresemann?they were all anathema. "Stresemann was Bismarck's best pupil," growled the Tiger recently. "He has gotten everything for his country, while on our side everything...
...Rains. What with a Donovan family from Boston who visit a Rogers family in Los Angeles, a subsequent interfamily love affair, and plenty of old jokes about California climate and real estate, the fabric of this play is mere burlap. One shining thread is woven through it in the fat shape of Mrs. Rogers' girlhood suitor who returns wealth, laden with bonbons, declaring: "With me, everything is a message to Garcia...
...women present, though not smoking, at smoking bouts. When a Chesterfield advertisement appeared in which an entrancing female was made to say, "Blow some my way," it seemed the peak in risque outspokenness had been attained. But now the landscape is plastered, advertising sections of magazines and newspapers are fat, with advertisements of women and girls smoking cigarets with utmost abandon...
...beautiful? Is she thin, fat, dropsical, anemic, senile, kittenish or reptilian? Last week Manhattanites asked these questions about Maria Lani, French cinemactress. For in the august Brummer Gallery was an exhibition of 51 representations of this one woman. She was "done" in marble, metal, paint, on a platter, on a piece of glass...
...Excess fat may be a disease, like appendicitis or measles, and then should not be fought by diet or massaging machines (Dr. Maxmilian Kern of Chicago...