Word: fats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fat comic felt at peace with the world, so he decided to call a boyhood pal, now an undertaker in Ohio. "This is Elwood P. Suggins," he said, choosing a phony name and his best rube twang. "My brother passed away Sunday a week, and I wonder if you could do a job." Said the undertaker: "Good God, man, Sunday a week! Where is he?" Replied the comic: "Out on the porch against the lattice. That cold spell that set in kept him harder than a carp. But then that warm spell set in, and he commenced to get pretty...
...court in New York City asked her to name the "CBS spokesman" she quoted as saying that Singer Judy Garland "doesn't want to work . . . because something is bothering her [and] I wouldn't be surprised if it's because she thinks she's terribly fat." The three-man U.S. Court of Appeals unanimously ruled that the requested information was material and relevant in Singer Garland's $1,393,333 suit against CBS for libel and breach of contract...
This battle of the sexes was not won without a struggle. "Pregnant preachers would be unseemly in the pulpit," said some of the traditionalists when the subject came up at the church convention last year. "Less so than fat, smug male priests," countered the feminists. When the convention vetoed the reform, the press kept up the pressure until Parliament convened a special church assembly of 45 clergymen and 57 laymen to reconsider the matter. When it came to the vote last week, it was 69 to 29 for the women...
...mantle of 'savior and protector' of the working people doesn't fit industrial 'fat-cats' who are promoting legislation in various states," he concluded...
...might say that the reason Harvard seems still to think works of American authors measly and a poor man's literature, is the fact of inertia. That ponderous old Harvard, like a fat man who can't see his feet, hasn't gotten around to local material...