Word: fats
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...clear summer night in Texas the moon hangs like a huge orange Chinese lantern; the stars sit like fat, cool diamonds on a sky of jewelers' plush; the earth is silent with the windless quiet of a thousand miles of sleeping land...
Digging into the fat tome, which in English runs to 344 pages, scholars noted that it falls into four sections. The first, comprising more than half the book, rehearses the whole of German-Polish relations, 1919-39, to depict "The Fight Against the Germans in Poland and Against Danzig and Germany's Attempts Under National Socialism to Reach an Understanding with Poland." This is largely made up of reports by German diplomats and consuls in Poland of "injustices" and "atrocities" suffered by expatriate Germans at the hands of Poles. The short second section, "The British War Policy," accusingly produces...
...ranked third in the South, after the Memphis Commercial Appeal (124,010) and the New Orleans Times-Picayune (109,825), almost lived up to its slogan: "The Journal Covers Dixie Like the Dew." Atlanta newsmen used to wisecrack: "Yeah, it's all wet!" For the Journal had grown fat and stodgy; its editorial stand was typified by an annual piece called March Comes in A-Blowin...
Twice to Once. First published in autumn 1938, Twice A Year has established itself as a distinguished periodical, more original in essence if less "experimental" in a literary way than the New Directions annual. Combining autumn 1939 and spring 1940 in a fat third number, the current Twice A Year temporarily assumes annual status. It is edited, designed, published and supported by a calm, brown-eyed, well brought up Philadelphian named Dorothy Norman who takes literature and liberalism both together and equally seriously...
Willing to give five marks ($2) worth of cloth for a fat goose...