Word: fats
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Senators Barkley of Kentucky, Clark of Missouri and Robinson of Arkansas, being fat men, seem fairly jolly most of the time. But the crowd which went down to the dock to bid farewell to the highest ranking U. S. officer ever to visit the Philippines and his fellow-travelers , found the gaunt face of Speaker of the House Byrns one vast crinkly mass of smiles; Representative Bertrand Snell, the dour New Yorker who leads what is left of the House Republicans, seemed positively cheerful. The fact that his mission had its serious diplomatic side, to show the Orient that...
...Listen, World! Some people give me a pain in the neck. Harvard men think they ought to go places just because a few of them have old men who make dough. Do they ever think of the good, honest Americans who slave away so they can live off the fat of the land? They do not! Well, let me tell you, it's a plenty raw deal for the rest of us!" The Vagabond groaned, as the face drew nearer and said. "Listen. Vag! Let Elsie Robinson run your column...
Harvard is used to such meddling. The teacher's oath bill is typical Heart-sponsored legislation. It catches the popular fancy, it requires little though and what is infinitely more important it boosts circulation, brings the pennies rolling in and entices fat advertizing accounts. Though Harvard has withstood and can go on withstanding meddling on the part of ignorant and ill advised critics, it cannot hold out against deliberate and premeditated falsification. Brogan criticizes the constitution from an English scholar's point of view: he does not spread red propaganda...
...Shushan, squat, swart dry goods wholesaler, has been well rewarded for the helping hand he gave Huey Long at the start. Grateful Governor Long made him an honorary colonel, showered his firm with fat, noncompetitive contracts to supply the State with such things as prison uniforms. His crowning reward was the presidency of the New Orleans Levee Board, with permission to build and name for himself a $4,000,000 airport having "Shushan" engraved 3,200 times on its metal, stone, tile and bronze. It was he who, as a bosom friend, stayed by Long's death bed. rushed...
Last week marked the 18th anniversary of the accession of fat, amiable, hoarse-voiced King Fuad to the throne of Egypt. Britain, who put him there, was acutely aware of two facts: 1) Fuad was educated in Italy, once served as an Italian artillery officer; 2) there are nearly twice as many Italians as Britons living in Egypt...