Word: fats
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Second, and more serious, threat to Kenyon was the impecunious rut into which small denominational colleges are apt to fall. For avoiding it Kenyonites give full credit to their lanky, weather-beaten President William Foster ("Fat") Peirce who, since he came from Boston in 1892, has built Kenyon a spruce modern plant, raised an endowment of $1,600,000. Under President Peirce, Kenyon has drawn its 250 students largely from prosperous Episcopalian families, supported flourishing chapters of the swanker Greek letter fraternities rarely found on Midwestern campuses. Particularly proud are Kenyon-ites of the college's trim airport...
...known that the Landonites wanted him, and the authoritative ring of his first-person-singular announced his availability with twice the hint and confidence of Frank Knox's self-effacing remarks about this being no time for personal ambition. Iowa's bluff Senator Dickinson, Maryland's fat Governor Nice, New Hampshire's unfortunately named Governor Bridges* and all the other favorite sons were clearly out of the running...
...took office fortnight ago he met French employers' representatives at a conference presided over by nervous Premier Blum, signed a pact promising to end the nationwide strikes in return for the granting of virtually all demands known to have been made by strikers. Boomed joyous Jouhaux as his fat fingers signed, "not merely a success but the greatest victory for workers which the history of trade unions has ever recorded...
...early years of the 19th Century, when England was ruled by the fat and foolish Prince of Wales, when Beau Brummell set the fashions, when Byron was revelling in the popular success of Childe Harold, a sprightly young lady named Harriette Dubochet, who had run away from home to become a prostitute, was at the height of her career. Very small with brown hair and large eyes, the daughter of a well-to-do stocking-mender, her life as a courtesan was not sufficiently distinguished to win her a place in history. She exercised no political influence, such...
Lawd make preacher big an' fat, Sleek an' shiny lak a beaver...