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Word: fats (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Carroll, who made a great show of earnest interest, was treated with vast politeness, too. (Said one baffled spectator: "They act like they was trying to give him the Congressional Medal.") But pudgy, fat-necked Gambler Frank Erickson, once assailed by the late Mayor Fiorello La Guardia as a "tinhorn and punk," ran into trouble. Enraged when Erickson, for approximately the twelfth time, insisted on his "constitutional rights," Senator McFarland yelled: "You're your own crime syndicate, aren...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GAMBLING: The Fat Boys | 5/8/1950 | See Source »

Erickson was a man of some authority on the subject: he admitted to the committee that he makes $100,000 a year. Like all the rest of the fat boys of the rackets, he seemed to be incredulous that Congress entertained the idea that it could stop him; through the testimony of all ran a confident theme: "We're here, and you'll just have to put up with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GAMBLING: The Fat Boys | 5/8/1950 | See Source »

...They want to be considered creative actors," snorted a spokesman for the dubbing company, "when in reality all they do is copy. They may be fat and ugly themselves, making it impossible for them to take original roles." It was a foolish argument, for which Actor Hubert had a prompt answer. "Is Paula Dehelly fat and ugly?" he cried of the svelte little player (see cut) whom many a Parisian had applauded on stage & screen in her own right. "I put it to you, is she fat and ugly? Piece of a rotten turnip...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Pop | 5/8/1950 | See Source »

Dragging for the fat shrimp which wriggle along the warm Mexican gulf coast, fishermen from Mexico, Cuba and the U.S. make long, profitable runs. But the business also has its hazards. One pink-streaked dawn last week, off the coast at Soto la Marina, a Mexican gunboat steamed up beside seven trawlers flying the U.S. flag and trained its guns on them. "You are fishing illegally in Mexican territorial waters!" bawled the skipper. "Follow me into Tampico under arrest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Crimp in the Shrimp | 5/8/1950 | See Source »

...hard to beat a Hemingway plot into the ground, kid. 20th Century-Fox tried hard to do it. They didn't quite make it. The plot's O.K. But that Orley Lindgren got such a fat part he ruined the picture, kid. That's the way the chips fall...

Author: By Stephen O. Saxe, | Title: THE MOVIEGOER | 5/6/1950 | See Source »

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