Word: fatted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...legitimate motion picture, he blandly confesses that news reels are all right. Now news reels are not all right. If Mr. Coolidge knew how unutterably foolish they have made him appear on occasion, his feelings would be quite reversed. Evidently it doesn't embarrass him to kiss seven fat babies before the steady lens of the camera, but how must it embarrass the babies. Mr. Coolidge has been photographed with everything from a Jersey cow to a Blackfoot Indian. He is the greatest star of the news reel. But isn't it a bit undignified, even for a President...
...last time Mr. Hall waded grandly through a character part as the portly theatrical manager, Max Rosenbaum, strictly "cocher". Mr. Hall is sometimes annoying and sometimes pleasing, but always he is different. To play the fat Jew with every mannerism, every whining intonation caught to a nicely, is the hardest thing that this reviewer has ever seen...
...millions on the operations. Some Europeans lost much money, others saved much by buying necessary wheat shipments when the price was down. From the U.S. standpoint, this latter feature was not creditable to the Messrs. Livermore and Howell as an "economic service," for the U.S. farmer lost a fat slice from prices he had hoped to command this month and next...
...independence-talk is manufactured by the big caciques (political and industrial bosses) who want to dispose of the public domain at a fat profit to themselves. Their insincerity is indicated by their naive assumption that independence will be accompanied by some sort of "mandate" or "guarantee" under which the U. S. will protect them. What is there in this...
...smokers, each provided with a spittoon, cuspidor or bowl, met at the annual open-air smokers' tournament, established many records. Marathon money went to one M. Lenoble, who made a pipeful last 51 min. 11 3/5 sec. (without going out); speed prize to M. Bibendum (President of the Fat Men's Club) who, with perspiration-beaded temples, finished a pipe in 1 min. 10 sec. Cigaret-smoking contests for speed, for endurance, were won by M. François Fratellini (member of a famed clown family) whose performances were: 1 min. 3 sec., 38 min. Cigar records were...