Word: fats
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Alfred Pritchard Sloan Jr., president of General Motors, before sailing for Europe on the Olympic last week, issued a long statement, of which the meat was that General Motors would cut a very fat melon in November. The stock did not soar, because some such statement had long been expected in Wall Street and the stock had already completed a steady rise...
...intelligent young woman (Violet Heming) and a Babbitt with ideals (Minor Watson) agree to get married on a business basis: he pays her a fat salary; she looks after his comforts, entertains his friends, but does not sleep with him; both are free to do whatsoever they please, to call off the marriage whensoever they wish. Love comes and the marriage is put on a more conventional footing. After that, the monkey wrench idea is used...
...because he had stopped once to refuel. Even so his time from New York to Los Angeles was a record; 23 hours, 50 minutes. The other entrants in the race had been forced down. Col. William Thaw seriously injured, had said before starting on the race: "I'm fat, I'll bounce...
...days and nights grow cooler in September, the gridiron absorbs the warmth of the waning sun. Rumors begin to sizzle, fat to drip off portly full-backs capering with pigskins...
Father Baldessare, fat, devout and stupid priest, was another to witness the miracle, and urged the Church to saint Annie Spragg. His credulity was rebuked by a more sophisticated churchman, who explained brutally that at the moment the Church had less need for miracles than for money...