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Word: fats (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...pictures shows a giant-bosomed, giant-toothed dame in frightening decolletage playing blind man's buff and shrieking DON'T HELP ME! DON'T HELP ME! to a row of gallants cringing away from her fat lurches. Another shows a scared young gentleman making a hasty escape from a roadster in which sits a sleek, lascivious wench. The young gentleman cries NO, NO! NOT THAT! A third displays a lady in taxicab whose face expresses explosive frenzy as she shouts at her indolent escort YOU'RE SO KIND TO ME, AND I'M SO TIRED...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Whoops Sisters Man | 12/24/1928 | See Source »

Shrewd Ivar Kreuger has known how to dicker with sensitive governments, greedy governments, when the Swedish Match Trust wanted another monopoly (TIME, Oct. 1). A fat check here, a guarantee there, and competition has pleasantly evaporated. Thus it was that, last week, the match king of Sweden could look with satisfaction at every major match-consuming country of the world, except...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Tandsticksaktiebolaget* | 12/24/1928 | See Source »

Dick followed Clarence about. But Clarence would not let Dick follow him to his eighth grade class in a Marshall County rural school. Dick stayed at home and grew big and fat. Poll came out on his flat, white head; little knobs grew into shiny, short, down-curving horns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Live Stock Show | 12/17/1928 | See Source »

MONEY FOR NOTHING-P. G. Wode-house-Double day, Dor an ($2). Funny as ever, Wodehouse embroils in disarming foolishness a U. S. senator who therefore sells oil stocks, a fat rich man who nevertheless gets pinioned at dawn on a windowsill, and others still...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mentions- Dec. 10, 1928 | 12/10/1928 | See Source »

...minimize the fat, mainly because this prosperous country demands high-priced pork. . . . Also, the growing use of vegetable fats, which are sold more cheaply than it is possible to sell hog fat, means that the hog today is primarily a meat animal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Hog Figure | 12/3/1928 | See Source »

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