Word: fats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...your picture of the Soviet leaders lined up on the Lenin-Stalin mausoleum: How could anyone-such as many liberals, artists, intellectuals, and so forth-be so gullible as to think that that line of fat porkies . . . could be sincerely and conscientiously interested in the welfare of the masses of people on the earth...
...founder and publisher-president of the PD, "the Platform simply means printing an honest newspaper." This week the paper celebrated its 75th anniversary in typical P-D style by looking far beyond the boundaries of Missouri. Instead of citywide fanfare, dinners and speechmaking, it put out a fat anniversary supplement, The Second American Revolution, with 33 articles on the American scene by everybody from former President Harry Truman, Attorney General Herbert Brownell Jr. and Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter to Poet W. H. Auden, Playwright Robert Sherwood and Cartoonist Al Capp. Included was a message from President Eisenhower, congratulating...
...section. What are they? Odalisques caught off guard by the photographer? Do they think the public is going to spend money to see them in B pictures if they are going to spend our substance on $6.50 meals (and up) and if they are going to live on the fat of "suckling pig dressed with lemon in mouth, maraschino cherries in eyes," etc ... By the way, Robert Cummings looks more like B. Lillie . . . ED E. HERBST Philadelphia
...rich land. In a festive "Dedication Week," Venezuela (pop. 5,000,000) got its first big up-to-date hotel, a super-highway more expensive per mile than any other in the world, and hundreds of lesser public works and engineering projects. By night-and-day speedups, the whole fat package had been brought more or less to completion at the same time, and President Marcos Pérez Jiménez inaugurated the "good works wholesale...
Purgatory is a dialogue between an illegitimate son and his insane father who finally kills the boy to keep him from reliving his own life of lust and murder. In portraying the "fat, greasy life." of which Yeats wrote, Michael Laurence and Ralph Russell act with unvarying intensity, robbing the short play of much of its potential impact. Every line is grossly shouted; there is no shading. As the father, Laurence is too noble--Yeats was not trying to write a tragedy of a noble man fallen, but a picture of a man groveling and depraved, even during his brief...