Word: fatted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...When the first flush of candidacy is over, a fellow stops in his tracks and just wonders what it is all about. . . . Somehow it seems I'm just a short, fat, baldheaded man who has learned much in the last year and will learn a lot more in the next few weeks." Not all the campaign speeches of Editor William Allen White, self-nominated anti- Klan candidate for Governor of Kansas, have been as genial and mock-modest as this since he banged down his desktop last month, started taking $25 out of the till of the Emporia Gazette...
Dear America! What a naughty boy you are growing to be! Prosperity has spoiled you; you have grown too fat to retain your tender sensibilities. You are too active, and have got out of control. ... You don't mean to be bad, after all, and you were born a good child. I love you all the same. But nevertheless you are too arrogant. . . . You are giving military drill to your girls. Shame! You are making military preparations day and night. Against whom? Whom are you afraid of? Of Japan...
...friendly to the Administrator *James Hamilton Lewis is "the U. S. political beau." Spats, pink waistcoats, purple handkerchiefs, whiskers of scarlet hue he wears with infinite variety. In his fighting days, he would go to the toughest wards of Chicago, dressed in his gayest, huge flower in his lapel, fat and fragrant cigar in his mouth. His audacity melted the hearts of the toughs- and toughs vote with their hearts...
...automobile has been blamed for much. Accused of corrupting the manners and temper of the American people it spitefully waxes fat with comfort and luxury. But while it may stupidly ignore the choice oaths of two score languages, it must bitterly resent the statements of Mr. Ramiro De Maezter...
...Jantzen Knitting Mills, Inc., began last June issuing red bathing-girl pasters to automobile agencies and garages. Though no prominent printing appeared on the pasters, they were advertisements for Jantzen swimming-wear for women. When slim, beauti-formed bathing girls proved popular, the company then tried out a clumsy, fat, comic mermodel for use on trucks, flivvers, etc. Circulation: 100,000 fat; 300,000 thin...