Word: fats
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...prior to publishing Mr. Knapp's letter. In the event that the Official Army Register is not among your works of reference it can be had from the Superintendent, of Documents, Government Printing Office, Washington, D. C., for one dollar. J. W. COTTON Captain, Infantry ( Subscriber ) Columbus, Ga. "Fat an Apple" Sirs: Why all the letters concerning Mr. Knapp and Boy Scouts? Why bother to associate the two [TIME. Aug. 29] ? Every one knows the fineness of the Scout movement. I would suggest that your readers who are quibbling over Mr, Knapp's letter eat one apple...
...Riders." Theodore Roosevelt got off a little black horse to lead his men. Leonard Wood was pulling the mouth of a big roan. A few hours later that battle too was won and one soldier told another, as they pulled off their sweaty shirts, how he had frightened a fat Spanish corporal by prodding him with his own knife or how he had weeked the mustachio of a lean little Spanish captain...
...France, fluttering from his pilot boat. As he hit the stone steps he went limp, his head down as though praying or crying. Then he grinned and was hauled out. He had won $7,500. Three hours and a half later, after 19 hours in the chill water, fat William Erickson of New York, came slowly hauling himself along with an overhead side stroke. Crushes of newspaper were thrown blazing on the water to light him home. He walked up the steps dazed, happy...
...Babe Ruth socked his 37th, 38th and 39th and 40th homers? Why not write up some of the good fights ? How about the races? Maybe they wouldn't admit it but I bet you most of your readers would sooner bet on a horse race than watch a fat lot of old ladies "bowl on the green." Oh, Percival! Oh, Clarence! When TIME left out such things it was laying down, just like they all do sooner or later. MORRIS ("AL") EPSTEIN...
...strike was called but failed. Judge Gary had proved himself as good a labor organizer as the unions had; again proved himself the next man's equal at improving his own ethics. Stockholders liked him. Besides paying them their regular dividends Judge Gary for years promised them a fat melon-cutting...