Word: fats
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Morgan, although the man who really runs it is dapper, twinkling, argumentative Bradford B. Locke of Princeton, its able executive vice president. Last week the Church Pension Fund held its 21st annual meeting in Manhattan, heard from its President William Fellowes Morgan that its assets now stand at a fat $33,000,000. A new problem, however, faced the Fund-the possibility that the Social Security Act may soon be amended to include non-profit organizations, thus piling a 3% tax upon the 7½% of clerical salaries which Episcopal dioceses pay annually into the Fund...
...Fat "Faithful Mary" (Viola Wilson), Father Divine's onetime chief female angel, who quit last year after declaring: "He's just a damned man-he ain't no more God than you're God," returned to his Harlem colony from Los Angeles when he sent her a diamond and sapphire ring. Said Faithful Mary: "He really...
...Baudelaire's imagination, sensuality had tragic grandeur. He lived with a fat mulatto and wrote the most magnificent French verse since Racine. He was also the only art critic of his day who recognized the greatness of Daumier. He died, broken by drink and opium, in 1867. Though not precisely a Bible to modern man, the Flowers of Evil has been abundantly profaned by illustrators who interpreted it as high-class pornography...
Amid the gentle, staccato popping of many walnuts in their test machine, the designers were able to boast last week that their device delivers no less than 60% of the output in fat whole and half meats. Previous gadgets were good if they produced 20% unbroken meats. The inventors are taking out a patent on their machine, think explosive nutcrackers can be built in quantity for $200 each...
...soot-black creatures. In Lake Forest, Anderson & Findlay's big Angus bull had soon serviced five Angus cows, and before long other breeders, in Kansas and in Iowa, were adding Aberdeen-Angus to their herds. The blacks began taking prizes, first at local shows, then at the Chicago Fat Show, then at the first International. In latter-day Internationals, when yearlings began to carry off top honors, the Angus, a fast fattener, was again & again the favorite...