Word: fats
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...large Tokyo department store shrewd Merchant Hikoichie Nato looked out beneath his large level eyebrows at a pug-nosed intense young man in tortoise-shell glasses who offered to sell him a fat share of a fine, ruthless, patriotic Japanese Revolution. "We need 100,000 yen ($29,000)," explained Revolutionist Tatsuo Amano, a lawyer of nationwide notoriety since he defended the assassins of Finance Minister Junnosuke Inouye and Financier Baron Dr. Takuma Dan (TIME, July 10, 1933). As the merchant hesitated, the revolutionist argued slyly: "Consider the 100,000 yen you contribute to our cause as an investment. Sell shares...
...week announced that his assistants in his Zurich laboratory had just cabled him word of their success. Testosterone is the name of the new hormone. It is related to the male sex hormone, androsterone, found in urine which Dr. Ruzicka previously synthesized. Like androsterone, testosterone is made from the fat (cholesterol) in sheep's wool, but is 25 to 50 times as potent a masculinizer as concentrated androsterone...
...Jersey, arriving in Manhattan from London, where he had remained at the Ritz Hotel during the whole pother. Still 100% mum. Tycoon Teagle debarked in Manhattan last week, while London papers still rumored that he hired Mr. Rickett in the first place and ordered the promoter's fat fee paid last week regardless of future developments...
During the reign of fat, cunning, democratic King Louis Philippe, an extraordinary crime, involving a smuggler's daughter, a great prince and the royal family, shocked a France that had become thoroughly accustomed to lurid intrigues and vile conspiracies. The smuggler's daughter was Sophie Dawes, brawny, coarse, mean-tempered Englishwoman from the Isle of Wight. The prince was Louis Henri Joseph, Duc de Bourbon, Prince de Condé, who had picked Sophie up in a London brothel. She was given great estates by her lover, was received by the king, moved in the highest French society despite...
...London, where the new company set about making pictures for Paramount and Gaumont-British release, Alexander Korda had a hard time until someone sent him a fat, pasty-faced young actor named Charles Laughton. To the derision of the whole British film industry, Producer Korda promptly cast Laughton as Henry VIII. He then persuaded United Artists to release the finished picture and last of all got together enough private capital to make it. The Private Life of Henry VIII made Laughton a superstar, launched the careers of Robert Donat, Binnie Barnes, Wendy Barrie and Merle Oberon, caused Korda...