Word: fats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fat-and, before all was done, much of the lean-was in the fire. The Democratic platform of 1908 (candidate: W. J. Bryan) declared for a constitutional amendment permitting an income tax. The Republican platform did not, but the candidate, William Howard Taft, announced that he was for it. In the heavily G.O.P. Congress of 1909, the income-tax group, led by a fiery Tennessean named Cordell Hull, introduced their measure-aimed, as Hull said, at the Carnegies, the Vanderbilts, the Morgans and the Rockefellers. The leading "plutocrat" of the Senate, Nelson Aldrich of Rhode Island, first tried desperately...
...driven by World Champion Andreas Ostler, edged out the U.S.'s Stan Benham & Co. (weight: 970 Ibs.), by 2.6 seconds in four heats. Since added weight means added momentum, the Olympic Committee has ruled that hereafter average weight shall not exceed 220 Ibs. per man. Sighed one fat bobsledder: "It's diet or quit...
...world. There is Hadija, an Arab prostitute, who gives him the illusion that he is capable of falling in love. There is Jack Wilcox, an American black-marketeer, who turns Dyar into an accomplice in his currency deals. There is Madame Jouvenon, the Soviet agent who hands him a fat check for "small bits of information." Before long, Dyar is able to feel that he is no longer "supremely anonymous." By the end of the novel, he has become an undeniably real person: he is hiding out on a mountain top, alone in the world save for the body...
...longer dons a cowboy suit for the annual fat stock show (Amon Carter, president), and seldom wears his checked gambler's suit with electrically illuminated necktie for soirees at Shady Oak Farm. Nevertheless, when he goes abroad, he wears his western hat and cream-colored polo coat, and people say, if they don't know him by sight, "There goes a sport," or, if they are Texans, "a nach...
...Goyen writes chiefly about loneliness. "The world," he says, "is too big; we lose people in it." Wandering through the lyrical pages of Ghost and Flesh is a variety of lost and lonely souls, including such town oddities as "Old Mrs. Woman," whom nobody loved because she was too fat, "Little Pigeon," an aging loony, and "Pore Perrie," who died from grief because her adopted son did not love her. They flit through the book more ghost than flesh...