Word: fats
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...trimmins, mister." Vag didn't remember Billy's ever cating a wienie before, but after all, if he wanted to go and get sick right in public, that was his own affair. Vag propelled the kid along through the crowd toward the sideshows. The nearest one was the fat lady...
...fat lady, she stamps, she shakes the ground, she wobbles, and she wiggles! Only ten cents, this way, please...
...personages). After that Grover Whalen slipped easily into a $100,000-a-year berth at Wanamaker's store, returned to civic affairs in the Mayor Walker regime when he became police commissioner and won his immortal epitaph-"The Gardenia of the Law." Grover Whalen has also held a fat job with Schenley Distillers and once served as New York City NRAdministrator...
...gluttonous, well-meaning husband, Louis XVI-to his courtiers "that great hog"-whose consistent blunders, according to Author Padover, mark the consistent advances of the Revolution, and make him the king-cog of the revolutionary turnover. Much new archive material documents this competent appraisal of an unheroic fat man trying to keep his head in a high historical wind. Inescapable is the conclusion that the bolshevik bourgeois and proletarians of 1793 "liquidated" the one French king who was more bourgeois than Bourbon, with a wide stripe in him of poor but honest artisan...
Louis' gluttony was gargantuan: Author Padover calls it "glandular." A "normal" meal for him would consist of four cutlets, a fat chicken, six eggs, a slice of ham. Sometimes he gorged himself insensible, would then mutter remorseful words of "slop-pail grossness." At decisive moments he was often too gorged...