Word: fats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Massachusetts State House in Boston was haunted by a fox for a whole week. Night watchmen would spot him skimming along the corridors and noted he kept fat on State House mice and leftovers from legislators' luncheons. Finally the fox was cornered in a basement tunnel hideout, doped with chloroform-impregnated cheesecloth on a long pole and later released in rolling New England woodland...
...down, look over the audience and say a line no gagwriter would ever put on paper: 'You know, once I was a little baby.' It kills them. I don't know why, but the fact that this fat old man was ever a baby just kills them...
...months." So saying, he fired unnecessary staffers, including a highly paid relative of a dominant stockholder, gave the job to the assistant of the discharged man. When the plant was ticking smoothly, Fairless called in the former assistant, gave him a fat raise and explained: "I was gambling my job on yours. If you hadn't made good after I fired the other guy, I'd have been fired. You came through...
...When he ran short of cheap "sugarhead" moonshine to fill a big order consigned to Atlanta's Negro slums, 360-lb. Bootlegger John R. ("Fat") Hardy whipped up a substitute. Police said that he bought a 54-gallon drum of poisonous methyl alcohol, often used for hot-rod fuel, and mixed it with well water, peach flavoring, regular moonshine and a "beading oil" calculated to make it foam when shaken. Seventyseven gallons were delivered. Within hours Atlanta's Grady Negro Clinic began to fill with men & women who panted, frothed at the mouth and writhed in horrible convulsions...
...experiment not only brought Shaw a fat stream of royalty checks until his death, but it stimulated a flagging Hollywood demand for Laughton and Charles Boyer in film roles and has given all four members of the quartet new earnings comparable to their income from the movies...