Word: fats
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Meantime, there was only one thing for a good Irishman to do-place his bets. Sweepstakes were flourishing in every office in Eire last week, and Radio-Eireann, the state broadcasting company, which had timidly refused to air political speeches of any kind, was offering a fat cash prize to the best picker...
...wrote Existentialist Jean-Paul Sartre in a catalogue introduction which sometimes made sense and sometimes didn't, "to sculpt is to take the fat off space...
Explosion Point. Brokers had felt sure that sooner or later the market would reflect fat earnings (which are generally continuing) with a healthy spurt. But last week's drop changed many minds or clouded the crystal ball completely. One expert, who glibly tosses off words like "velocity ratings," "gaps." "double tops," "recoil," etc. to explain the market, finally gave up. Said he: "Frankly, I don't know what's happening. I'm baffled...
...transmitting musical effects was a huge and complicated industry in which the artist, the advertiser, the salesman and the inventor fought ceaselessly for expression and profit. Its impact upon the people of the U.S. and the world was tremendous-it had given them both the Beethoven Ninth and Too Fat Polka ("I don't want her, You can have her, She's too fat for me"). It had also made possible the use of either Beethoven or boogie-woogie in the sale of elevator shoes or political propaganda...
...Snapper Arthur ("Too Fat") Godfrey, CBS's earlybird disc jockey, spotted an unexplained washing machine in his studio one morning last week, casually gave it away to a woman in the studio audience. CBS's Winner Take All, which had been storing the washer in the studio, promptly cried thief. Grumped Godfrey: "That'll teach 'em to keep their junk off my show...