Word: fatted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Mlle Lengien, 'Cleopatra of tennis', replied with what some people thought was amusing malice: 'She is a great player. Her operation [appendix] may or may not hurt her game, but it is not her biggest handicap. I was surprised to find she is letting herself get fat. Helen is getting too big about the hips.' My coach, W. C. ('Pop') Fuller swiftly retorted for me that my figure is mathematically perfect has not varied for months...
...front page photograph in the New York Daily Mirror, tabloid. As everyone knows, I disowned my daughter Ellin when she married Irving Berlin, songwriter, and I have also refused to visit the baby or let the baby visit me. The child, which was photographed asleep, looks like any dark, fat, healthy baby. People say this is the first time any baby's picture has occupied the entire front page of a newspaper. The day following its publication, my daughter Ellin said: 'Naturally my father could not have recognized me in the baby, because it was not my baby...
Sirs: I agree with Newsstand-Buyer Pope (TIME, Jan. 3) as to only one of his "ten biggest" U. S. citizens - namely Chief Justice Taft. The other nine should be: "Big Bill" Edwards Irvin S. Cobb "Fatty"; Arbuckle Senator Heflin "Pudge" Heffelfinger-* "Phonzo the Fat Man" "Beppo the Big Boy" Elisabeth Marbury, The Doorman at Connie...
...Harvard wants to go on the stage and be successful as an actress I would advocate for him hard work and temperate living, a careful diet, continued practice, strict attention to dance and music lessons, an hour a day with dramatic instructor, and, above all, never to get fat, and," concluded Marilyn with a wink, "nobody ever accused me of being facetious...
...sugary, slap-my-wrist, mother's-boy "line" she gives her J. Hartley Harrison, scoutmaster, is one of the most innocently poisonous characterizations ever done. Some of her others are: acidulous Aunt Sarah, 99, with parrot and enema bags; dependable, blockheaded Charlotte, who marries Hoagland Driggs; the fat little heir across the street; wan, wishful Carrie, Aunt Sarah's slave; and-flashes-sultry, vivid Opal Mendoza, "bad girl," the only one whose words comfort Joe at all; squat, square, red-faced Effa, "simply killing," a perpetual circus, whose salt tears run into her broad mouth when she smells...