Word: fats
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Marshal Joffre, to many smart, shallow people is "just a fat man who was lucky. But solid citizens still believe in him. They showed their faith when the franc was tottering (TIME, May, 3, 1926) by subscribing 19,000,000 francs to the Joffre Save the Franc Fund. Last week the final scene in that impressive drama was acted at Paris...
...fat King Henry VIII who strolled about, ready to buss shy maids, was, of course, Chancellor Churchill. The scowling headsman, shouldering a "bloody" ax was the Earl of Birkenhead. Of the two simpering "little boys" in Eton jackets, turned down collars, pink bow ties and white socks, one was Prince George, 24, the other Edward of Wales...
...York City's welcome in her honor was runner-up to the recent Lindbergh carnival. But the vaudeville and cinema contracts in her honor were not as fat as admirers expected. Her lawyer, Dudley Field Malone of Manhattan, finally allowed her to accept a contract which required that she perform in a glass tub on vaudeville stages. "The idea of an endurance swimmer showing the public anything in a one-stroke tub suggests a whale doing a marathon in an eye cup," remarked a Chicago Tribune writer...
...Director of Military Operations of the Imperial British General Staff was, from 1915 to 1918, Major General Sir Frederick Barton Maurice, who may certainly be assumed to know as much about the War as any man alive. Recently this great soldier and tactician picked up and read two fat volumes† about the War from the sale of which Chancellor of the Exchequer Winston Churchill is drawing considerable pelf. As he read. Sir Frederick apparently began to experience a sense of scorn. Here were errors of fact, sloppiness, perversions of truth and everywhere the pink and soapy touch of superficiality...
...Henry Beckett of the New York Evening Post, who hashed up half-truths thus: "In Paris M. Poiret inhabits a studio with leopard skins on the floors, frescoes on the walls and stone figures of nude women on pedestals. He gained note as a builder of styles for fat women, and he learned about women-fat women -from umbrellas. He used to be an apprentice to an umbrella manufacturer, and he studied the lines and curves and ribs. He also turned around to look at women on the boulevards. In this he differed not a whit from other Parisian gentlemen...