Word: fats
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...adipose individuals with twin bellies swagger before a packed Young's Hotel auditorium of Curley supporters. On the stage with them, twenty other persons, some fat, some thin, none with bellies to compare with the two leaders of the gathering, rock and away to the strains of "Mother Machree." A tear glistens on the check of the adipose one on the left. Unashamed he wipes it away. The band ceases its dripping strains...
...campaign room, a dozen precinct captains swarm around the phone. Each wears a round badge, patriotically decorated in red, white, and blue, also with green, yellow, and purple, thrown in to make it attractive. An enormously fat bull-dog with a hide that was once white, rolls on the floor in the havoc of cigar-butts, torn posters, and dirt. He slouches away from one of the campaign managers. He upsets the spittoon. "Jesus, Curley, watch it!" one of the cigar-chewers admonishes...
...largely British-owned, had done its best to spread work, a few hours a day per man. But that came to only $2 a week. These Magyar miners and their families were starving. It had come to the point last week where their mouths watered at sight of the fat little pit ponies, sweating in the lamplight. Up from the mine they suddenly sent an ultimatum: either the owners raise their pay to $3.50 a week or they would have one good dinner on the ponies and then smash the ventilators. Death by suffocation they preferred to death by slow...
...Publisher Scribner asked Author Freeman to write a biography of Lee, he expected it to be a one-volume affair, soon discovered to his surprise that "much the larger part of the source material had never been consulted." The job grew under his hand, when finished will fill four fat volumes. But Biographer Freeman turned up no startling new facts. "There were no 'secrets' and no scandals to be exposed or explained." Lee's reputation as a soldier and a gentleman will not be tarnished by his latest biographer. Author Freeman's first two volumes take...
...Manhattan, rival society newshawks combed morgues, thumbed notebooks, hounded social secretaries to see who could compile the longest list of 1934-35 débutantes. Out in front was Hearst's American which found 355 in Greater New York. To accompany his fat list Hearst Columnist Maury Henry Biddle Paul ("Cholly Knickerbocker") wrote an earnest, last-minute message, complete with his annual "Don't's," to the mothers of Park Avenue. Excerpts...