Word: fats
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...British Government inquired precisely what the Realmleader meant by asking that the League of Nations Covenant be separated from its basis in the Treaty of Versailles. Did Germany intend to repudiate all the remaining sections of that fat document and "any agreement which may be said to have its origin in the treaty of Versailles?" What did he mean by a brand new international court, with what powers? Why had he not included Russia, Latvia and Estonia in his proposed system of non-aggression pacts...
...bleak stone villa in London's suburban Kingston Hill, a tall, dazed, blue-eyed boy of 16 last week got a long-distance call from Cairo. It was his mother, Queen Nazli. "My son," she sobbed, "you are King." Egypt's fat and flabby King Fuad had just died of heart attack and gangrene of the mouth (TIME...
...blonde girl in a slip with High Tide of the Flesh on her knee; Sleeping Girl, another blonde superbly relaxed. Such fleshiness caused lusty Painter Reginald Marsh to exult in the exhibition's catalog: "Everywhere in these paintings is luxury. There is wit and a fine, fat magnificence. . . . Miss Duller has painted this clean, opulent world with a terrible power...
...from the onetime Kaiser, spying for the Soviets. In 1928 Mencken published a collection of these attacks (Menckeniana, a Schimpflexicon). Born in Baltimore of German grandparentage. Mencken began to write "seriously" at 12, took T. H. Huxley (see below I for his god at 16. An amiable skeptic, short, fat. boyish to look at, he is fond of practical jokes. Some suspect his philological delvings are merely a form of involved japery. but fellow-philologists take him seriously, call him the authority on U. S. English...
...Capone's onetime boss, for an ordinary revenue law violation (TIME, May 4). Bail was set at a supposedly prohibitive $100,000. Last week a plump, elderly woman walked into Manhattan's U. S. District Court, dipped deep into her black purse, pulled out a fat wad of bills, carefully peeled off 97 crisp $1,000 bills, four $500 bills, ten $100 bills. A gaping clerk counted them, recounted them, made out a receipt for the bail of John Torrio, paid in full...