Word: fats
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...again butted her. Mrs. Arthur N. Presmont ran around a tree; the ram followed her, twice butted her. At last the crew of a passing automobile truck came to restrain the ram. Bruised & exhausted, Mrs. Presmont said: "I was terrified. But its a glorious good thing I'm fat...
...rang. Griffo, fumbling a towel, swayed to the centre of the ring, bent down to spread the towel. Tracy, ignorant of the rules of the handkerchief trick, hit him a shattering blow behind the ear. Griffo was out. Griffo swelled to 235 pounds before he died. For years too fat for the handkerchief trick, he never lost the lightning of his hand and eye. To the day of his death he could catch a fly in flight between his thumb & forefinger. The day of his death, like most of the days of his life, found Griffo without a dime. Money...
...exposition was California Stamp, raised by students at the University of California. It weighed 1,055 pounds, accumulated by feeding on barley, oats, bran & alfalfa. The New Bismarck Hotel, Chicago, paid $2.35 a pound for California Stamp, to slaughter him for its Christmas dinners. Last year's champion fat steer, Rupert B., brought $3.60 a pound on the hoof, highest price ever paid...
There may or may not arise some carping soul to comment unfavorably upon the fact that Miss Ruth Elder, who flew, if not to Europe, at least most of the way to the Azores, has accepted a vaudeville contract at a nice, fat figure, in order that the public may see the first woman to fly nearly to Europe and that she may have a suitable reward. True enough, this is not what Lindbergh did; but Lindbergh was an army officer with a responsibility to his government, and Miss Elder is not. It is impossible for anyone, particularly a young...
...says the author, "the hundred percent Romans brawling drunkenly in their Forum ... lying on the cushions of their litters caressing with obscene fingers their boy-favorites--gloating sadistically, in their amphitheatres and circuses, over the butchery of unhappy gladiators and starved wild animals. They are fat heavy-jowled men with cruel eyes. To make the picture perfect all they need is big cigars.," So much for the men who built one of the largest empires in the world, certainly the empire whose institutions had the most lasting historical influences...