Word: fats
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...college (Yale, Williams). He dances at all functions-motormen's, modists', the Social Register's. His grandfather, the late William Walter Phelps, was (1889-93) U. S. Ambassador to Germany.* The grandson is an ambassador of the sidewalks to the agronomists and small-towners at Albany-fat-faced, loud, generous, shrewd, a smoker of cigars at every waking moment. He professes not even to afford a motorcar in which to battle Matron Pratt...
...Fat King Fuad of Egypt steamed out in his serene white yacht to meet T. R. H., as their steamer hove in to Alexandria. Even distant observers could discern His Majesty's obsequious nervousness. He is a British puppet and in constant danger of assassination by patriots of his own race. More, he is constantly anxious lest such patriots molest or assassinate British officials in Egypt. Therefore, though precautions to protect the English princes had been tripled and re-tripled, they were entertained principally upon His Majesty's yacht...
...because the perfect road down which one is whizzing must soon cross another? Sacre bleu! If one is a French chauffeur, and if one has waited in the sun all morning at the wheel of a Bugatti or a Farman* then what joy, what exhilaration, when one's fat Spanish employer and a couple of his "little girls" scramble into the tonneau, crying, "En route Henri! Nous sommes pour Biarritz...
...open season for trout ended, but not before the President had caught one more fat rainbow trout (4½ lbs.) and, by moonlight one evening, a grayling. Fifty grayling-slim, gamey cousins of the trout with a high dorsal fin, plentiful in Montana but almost extinct in Wisconsin-had been turned into the Brule from the Pierce estate's fish nurseries...
Secretary Earl Baker, of the Committee, cabled from Shanghai, last week, that the myriads of grasshoppers which partially caused the famine by devouring crops are now being devoured in turn by famished humans. Fat grasshoppers are fought...