Word: fatted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week Col. Carmi Alderman Thompson, personal representative in the Philippines of President Coolidge, leisurely journeyed on as usual after leaving Damaghete, Occidental Negros, where, as in the other southern islands, special orders had been given that fat and lean Filipino females should cease chewing betel-nuts, smoking cigars, ambling about naked. No doubt as the good steamship Mindoro cleft azure wavelets, Mr. Thompson occasionally thought of the political situation in this southern section. He knew, of course, that these southern islands contain overwhelmingly Moro, Mohammedan, polygamous and warlike inhabitants who will not pay taxes as it is against their...
...Connor, Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Newark, N. J., the priests in the city parishes of that diocese gave up their automobiles. Parishioners gasped. Was it to humiliate the holy fathers that Bishop O'Connor had done this thing? Did he want to make fat priests lean, and sadden lean ones by . packing them into streetcars ? "Fishers of men" ... how could they be fishers if they were bundled, like sardines, in busses, elevated railways? Or perhaps, thought parishioners, Bishop O'Connor in-tended his edict as a rebuke, perhaps the fathers had been over-zealous...
...dissatisfied with us. They say we are ignorant, but when we become educated they say we are too far advanced and become jealous." To the question, "Do you like the English?" Her Highness replied with complacent mirth: "Englishmen always look as if they needed feeding. Here we like nice fat men." Sir Ghanshyamsinhji, Maharajah...
...Harvest is almost completed in the North and West. In the Dakotas and Minnesota the crop (spring) was short on account of dry weather, although showers helped the late crop of North Dakota. Dry weather persisted in Montana, but low temperature saved the stands. Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, Georgia report fat crops...
...Aesop's fables, Members accuse Belly of being a fat, lazy good-for-nothing, who does nothing but consume food...