Word: fatted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...your issue of May 13, p. 30, Professor Thorndike considers the probability of someone's eating an earthworm in consideration of $100 cash in hand. It might interest him to hear that a man once did eat an earthworm, fresh, fat and raw, for 25? cash, then & there paid by his farmer employer. I did not see it, but I knew both parties and my informant was the employer's son. This throws into my mind some doubt of the value of Professor Thorndike's statistics...
...Columbia's fat and famed Thorndike asked me my price for spitting on a picture of Washington or for eating an angleworm I wouldn't give the silly answer the question deserved but would call for a paddy wagon...
Four centuries of bafflement over the expression Leonardo da Vinci put on a face in a picture the world has come to know as the Mona Lisa would be ended by a few facts about the fat-cheeked woman sitting smugly against the sea-green setting of winding water and oddly spired landscape.* Forty years after Leonardo's death a painter-journalist named Giorgio Vasari told the world that that woman had been Madonna Lisa, third wife of a Neapolitan named Francesco di Bartolommeo di Zanobi del Giocondo. Of Lisa little is known. Last week Dr. Raymond S. Stites...
...week were signs of Joe Jones's Communism-We Demand, Garbage Eaters, Demonstration, The New Deal. There was also unmistakable talent and power. Notable was American Justice, a vivid picture of a prostitute who had been lynched by hooded Ku-Kluxers. St. Louis and environs were there in fat wheat fields, freight sidings, Second and Biddle Streets, Missouri River. Chimed the critics: ''An auspicious affair, uneven in quality but interesting throughout and full of promise...
...reduction in the tariff on Cuban sugar from 2? to nine-tenths of a cent per lb. Net result was a closed system (taking in the U.S., its insular possessions and Cuba), in which AAA could dictate supply, if not demand. Western sugar beet growers received a fat quota and benefit payment from a processing tax; duty-free producers in Hawaii, Puerto Rico and the Philippines got higher prices which partly compensated for the reduced tariff advantages; and Cuba, assured of an outlet for about 70% of its sugar at profitable prices, was rescued from total economic collapse. Meantime...