Word: fats
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Ever tactful, the Beatissimus Pater bore in mind last week taut-waisted d' Annunzio's scorn of fat men when he despatched to him a communication anent the "monastery" : ". . . I will allow you ten monks picked from among the thinnest in all Italy...
...Workers of America. He was asked to call a special session of the legislature for impeachment proceedings against Judge I. Grant Lazzelle of the Monongalia County circuit. The miners charged that Judge Lazzelle, who, with his brothers and sister, leases coal lands to operators in Monongalia County and enjoys fat royalties, was guilty of "maladministration, corruption, incompetency and neglect of duty." Lately he refused the miners an injunction against four coal companies that had allegedly abrogated "a most solemn contract," two of the companies being headed by the lessee of Judge Lazzelle's property...
...Grand Jury qualified to decide between indecency and art? Does Eugene O'Neill deserve the same latitude as Shakespeare? Obviously if a hidebound Grand Jury is given rein much classic and modern expression will be throttled. Obviously if the lid is lifted altogether unscrupulous producers will grow fat pandering to the peep-show instinct of the populace...
...voice has been lifted against any of them. And yet the moralists go down into a remote corner of the town, where men and women are as tough as stale beefsteaks, and demand that the lid be clapped on the innocent spectacle of a fat girl shaking her middle...
Purse-heavy U. S. citizens exchanged fat dollars at Paris for 34½ lean francs each-only an odd franc less than during the low-for-all-time slump (TIME...