Word: fats
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...than a corporal's uniform, eats no meat, never smokes, drinks nothing stronger than beer. Contrariwise No. 2 Nazi Hermann Wilhelm Göring crowds every waking moment with pomp and circumstance, changes from gorgeous to still more gorgeous uniforms half a dozen times a day, stuffs his fat but mighty-muscled frame with much raw meat, tosses off champagne with gusto and indulges his every whim, from keeping a fond lioness at home to forcing the League of German maidens to make pilgrimages to the shrine of his late first wife who was a Swedish Baroness...
...give up, it gradually becomes established that his daughter has become a trump card in a plot to assassinate a diplomat whose death may mean a war. Following the clue he discovers in the note, Lawrence goes to Wapping, tiptoes into a deserted church, finds himself trapped by a fat smiling monster (Lorre) who orders the little girl brought in. The company sit down to listen to a broadcast of an Albert Hall concert at whose crescendo the anarchists' triggerman will fire his revolver. Good shot: Mrs. Lawrence, in the audience at Albert Hall, watching a gunbarrel emerge slowly...
...went under in 1932, has since been operated at a loss by court trustees. Sole bidder for its assets last week was a contractor named Harry R. Pearley, whose offer of $100,100 was promptly accepted. Newshawks soon found that the real buyer was not Mr. Pearley but a fat and fabulous man named Samuel Rosoff who was pacing about at the fringe of the crowd. Asked why he bought it, Rosoff explained...
Three months ago, 4,400 young amateur boxers, most of them so timid, rickety, fat or ungraceful that their interest in fisticuffs suggested lack of good sense, signed entry blanks in the Golden Gloves Boxing tournament sponsored by the New York Daily News and the Chicago Tribune. Last week, this monster tournament reached its annual climax in the Chicago Stadium. A capacity crowd watched a Chicago team win the last eight three-round bouts on the program, beat New York 11 bouts to 5 in the inter-city finals...
...powerful building trades' unions glower darkly at houses that can be put up with fewer plasterers, carpenters, roofers, painters and plumbers. Probable result: prefabricated houses will be pushed and developed from outside the building trades by big electrical corporations, plumbing, steel, cement, and wallboard companies who see a fat, new market for their wares...