Word: fatted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sophie Tucker used to be a waitress in the dining room of her father's hotel in Hartford, Conn. She was a fat, jolly girl, and the patrons of the Tucker House, many of them show people, told her she ought to go on the stage. They made fun of her deep, mournful voice, telling her they liked the way she sang. One night she ran away from home leaving a letter informing her father that she would never come back until she was famous. She plugged black-face songs in movie houses until...
...lecturer, Dean Everett Victor Meeks of the Yale School of Fine Arts, demands plenty of attention and reading in his course in architectural history, demands fat noteboks with multitudes of clipped illustrations. It is not an easy course. Yet it is crowded, relished. Probably even more satisfying to Dean Meeks is the fact that since his coming to the School of Fine Arts in 1916 it has become, in competition with nationwide art schools and ateliers, the most successful prize-winning institution in the country. Yale students have taken the annual Prix de Rome in painting, most coveted award...
...above water to enjoy the broader contacts College should give him. Let him approach ever so near the Dean's List--three "B's" and a "C" plus, say, at finals. His bourgeois friend whose ease and mental tranquility has allowed him to make four "B" minuses gets a fat scholarship, but he gets as little consideration from the scholarship committee as does the man on probation...
...grunts. Frightened by reports of what Bacha Sakao, the usurping bandit-King, was doing to rebels-firing them from cannon, killing them on the streets- Amanullah's followers continued to desert him in a steady stream. Last week, accompanied by his "beautiful" wife, Queen Thuraya, and his prodigiously fat Brother Inayatullah and his wife, he fled precipitately over the Indian border. At Bombay, two ambulances stood chugging expectantly at the station. Amanullah, in civilized trousers, looked worried. He was about to become a father for the seventh time. Inayatullah was expecting, too, for the fourteenth time. But the expected...
...platform in Kandahar's largest square stood throneless King Amanullah and a small ironbound box. Seizing the box firmly, plump Amanullah struggled with the iron hasp. Loudly he grunted, stoutly he tugged. So entertaining was the fat man's performance that though he sweated and wrestled on the platform for two full hours, the entire audience remained. Finally when his most vigorous contortions and loudest grunts began to pall, Amanullah paused, cried aloud to Mohammed for assistance. A final tug, and the box flew open. Perspiring Amanullah held high Mohammed's sacred cloak. Convinced, the Afghan audience...