Word: fats
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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After citing the notorious inconsistency of Editor White in estimating public char acters, Nominee Robinson said: "Let me tell you what Mr. White has said. ... He has described Herbert Hoover as a "fat, pudgy capon sitting on eggs...
...Presidential candidates. "That Al Smith" would soon have the Pope of Rome prancing around in the White House, say the Friendship folk. As for Mr. Hoover, he is the man who took all our bread and sugar away during the War and "et" it himself. "Just look how fat he is," say the Friendship housewives. Mrs. Abbie Simmons Fernald won't have even a Hoover vacuum cleaner in her house...
...rican" like a dowager duchess, Lady Astor was every bit as politic as a national committeewoman or an assistant attorney-general. She drove about her native state admiring the improvements and nodding to all the people her friends hoped would be Democratic voters. She was politic with a very fat traveling salesman who rescued her with his flivver when her car broke down. She was politic with John Davison Rockefeller Jr., to whom she was introduced at Williamsburg...
...sits under the gilded dome of the Pulitzer Building and does his job with dour thoroughness. He learned his line and perhaps some of his satirical sharpness under the late great Artist Whistler. His method is the oldtime one of standardizing the figures he seeks to flay. His corpulent, fat-jowled metaphor for the G. O. P. has became almost as well-known as was the late Thomas Nast's moneybag effigy of Boss Tweed years ago.* In the gallery of Kirby stigmata, the figure of Theodore Roosevelt the Younger as a small, grimacing boy in a sport shirt, invented...
...spare hours were habitually ill-spent. At the age of 24 he killed a man in a mysterious brawl. He devised elaborate tricks for the theft of rich provender and wines (after his death the noun Villonerie was common parlance for clever ruses). The raucous trulls at Fat Margot's knew him well. The haughtier but hardly more discriminate Katherine de Vausselles flippantly ignored his lust for her when he could no longer buy pretty trinkets. To forget this voluptuous witch he decided to leave Paris. But beforehand, with three others, he burglarized the College of Navarre, a rich...