Word: fats
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Voluntary barrenness and reducing cures to rid her miserable body of every ounce of superfluous fat are the greatest crimes a woman can commit under the Fascist régime...
...however, disputed Dr. Lambert's re-findings. He was Alexander S. Horovitz, Manhattan biochemist, who had compounded narcosan out of lipoids (fat-like substances), proteins and vitamins. Narcosan is efficacious, he declared, angrily. English, French, German and Australian doctors were using it. Dr. Lambert's committee did not give it fair trial. But the committee's decision was undisputed in the minds of more U. S. doctors. It was made up of some of the best men in the profession: Menas S. Gregory, neurological director of the psychopathic department of Bellevue Hospital; Stanley R. Benedict...
...Assomoir (1877) sold 100,000 copies. This drab vignette of lowly Parisian life rooted naturalism in the literary soil. Zola married an intelligent, passionate woman. He met weekly with Gustave Flaubert, Edmond de Goncourt, Alphonse Daudet, Ivan Turgeniev. He was famed, fat crammed with food. He worked incessantly ? news articles, plays, novels. His villa at Medan. outside Paris, grew in bulk and reputation. Its owner was excoriated, saluted, accused, defended. Madame Zola remained childless...
Since it is the virile Mohammedans and not the lackadaisical, jabbering Hindus who might be expected to strike a blow for "Dominion Status," the service of His Highness the Aga Khan to Britain, last week, was worth incalculably more than even the fat Khan's great weight in gold...
...Princess might have anticipated, Octavian found the young Sophie more alluring than herself, and immediately set about detaching Sophie's affection from the fat and lecherous Ochs. This was done in an instant, and it was next necessary for the count to employ strategies in order to prevent the degrading marriage which Ochs intended. There was room at the inn to which Ochs abducted the maid (Octavian), whom he had ogled in the boudoir of the Princess. Octavian played tricks on Ochs. The police, Sophie's father, the Princess arrived, but none of them stayed the course of young love...