Word: fats
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...earth could the conductor of your Sport Column overlook the wonderful victory won by the "Tomcats" of Ashland, Kentucky? How does their "clean play" record of going through the entire tournament without a single personal foul compare in "reader interest" with your recent story (under "Records") about the fat man from Hamburg who swam the sea lion to sleep...
Surviving Baron Dalziel is his famed collaborator in the merger, fat and foppish
This situation has its pathetic side, aside from the implied underselling by other cities. For an old lawyer, grown fat with riches gathered beside the Charles, has said within the hearing of Mr. Sinclair: "Hang onto your money. Nobody respects anything else. . . ." "Harvard and State Street and Beacon Hill had taught him that attitude," adds Mr. Sinclair, who is an expert at qualitative analysis. And Max Keezor agreed, with a respectful pull at his forelock, "Aye, a little learning do be a dangerous thing...
...Hamburg a fat man named Otto Kemmerich got into a swimming pool with a California sea lion. After swimming for ten hours the sea lion went to sleep in the water, was revived with a meal of fresh herring, swam 32 hours more, collapsed. Kemmerich swam four hours longer, a new world's endurance record...
...body growth are influenced by the front pituitary lobe. Overactivity of the lobe causes sexual precocity, great stature, large hands and feet, culminating in the giant of the circus. Underactivity causes sexual retardation, small hands and feet, small fat bodies culminating in the true dwarf. Doubtless Dr. Steinach fed extracts of the anterior lobe to his rats. Normal people gradually growing old will take another look at the circus side shows produced by pituitary glands run riot, before they try to stop Nature's course with Dr. Steinach's serum...