Word: fats
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...only fling in the stock market on margin. On a tip he put every available cent on a stock then selling at $9. In two weeks he sold it at $28.75. This was the peak and a few days later the stock was back to $9. Douglas had a fat profit but his analytical mind shuddered over the thought of what might have happened...
...Fat Vittorio Mussolini, 21, married and a veteran bomber of Ethiopian villages, has been excited about the cinema for over a year. But the original idea for this latest of Fascist corporations belonged to neither Vittorio Mussolini nor Hollywood Producer Hal Roach. It belonged to an earnest Italian, Dr. Renato Senise, nephew of the chief of Rome's secret police and son of an Academician. To Hollywood he went over a year ago fired with his pet idea, the production of full length cinema operas in Italy where tenors are as plentiful as olives. There he met Producer...
...Arts* last week Hendrik Willem Van Loon presented his most ambitious and earnest chronicle. Fat as its author but not so weighty, cut down from an original 1,800 pages to less than 700, this book embodies "the story of painting and sculpture and architecture and music as well as all the so-called minor arts from the days of the caveman until the present time." Bulk of The Arts' material, however, is concerned with the plastic arts. Like a fond Dutch uncle with the skill of an expert lecturer, Mr. Van Loon begins with the premise that artists...
...farm income from the sale of all crops plus payments by the Agricultural Adjustment Administration will total up to nearly $9,000,000,000. largest since 1929's $10,479,000,000, and more than a billion greater than last year. Though bears suggested that most of this fat income had already been spent in anticipatory or installment buying, leaving only a wrung-out remnant for fall business, joy reigned in most rural hearts as the nine billion dollar harvest moon approached its full...
...best-selling class. Last week a sizable audience was waiting with shocking hopefulness for the sequel, Europa In Limbo. But purple passages in the latest Briffault were thin and few. An earnest, disillusioned, clumsily Voltairian novel, its lean streaks of perception were buried in thick stretches of unmuscled fat...