Word: fats
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Stockton, Calif, insane asylum last week died a fat old woman with wild white hair and a lame hip. She had been locked up for nearly half a century, happily certain that she was a great, rich lady, babbling endlessly about her memories. She could never keep her story straight, sometimes asserting that she had been married to President Lincoln and General Grant, or that the King of Italy was her foster father, or that she owned the Republic of Guatemala. But the daft old crone was not to be pitied, for she had lived greatly once and her true...
...Idiot's Delight" is crammed with characters as well as comment. Suffice it to say that every role is brilliantly filled: the raving Communist whom the Italians have to shoot, the fat German scientist who decides to turn from his cancer cures to the invention of a new and deadlier gas, the pitiable little pawn of a waiter who went out resignedly for the Austrians and is now seen ready to go out resignedly for the Italians. Alfred Lunt is overflowing with the shrewdness and practicality his part calls for, and if no Middle-Westerner ever heard speech so raucous...
Helen, the problem child, was boy-crazy from the start, but not so crazy that she miscalculated her own value. Her first marriage, to a fat old copper tycoon, got her out of Silver Bow to the happy hunting grounds of the East. There she had a series of affairs, a series of marriages, at book's end was still going strong as a problem child in her fifties...
APRIL-Vardis Fisher-Doubleday, Doran ($2). Idyll of a fat, poverty- stricken farm girl with princess yearnings; Idaho's novelist-laureate in a comic Valentine vein...
...collection of 2,000 formulas taken from pharmacopoeias all over the world, chemical formulas and prescriptions for dental and cosmetic preparations, poisons and antidotes. New & Nonofficial Remedies, published by the American Medical Association, describes new drugs which A. M. A. authorities approve. Revised editions of these four important fat volumes, which every U. S. pharmacist must own, were put into circulation last week. Last week the fifth must book for all U. S. pharmacists, the U. S. Dispensatory, appeared in its 22nd edition. Published by Philadelphia's old J. B. Lippincott Co., edited by Professor Horatio Charles Wood...