Word: fatted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...thinks that the less Democrats say about it, the better for him or any other Democratic candidate for President in 1940. Profound conviction that the Democrats need no assistance in harming themselves continued to inspire G. O. P.'s McNary. Such remaining oppositionists as Missouri's fat Bennett Clark, North Dakota's Gerald Nye, California's Hiram Johnson, constituted not a real Opposition but a malformed crew without plan or leader. Thus deprived of the full-dress performance previously advertised by Senator Clark & Co., the public had to make out last week with some informative sideshows...
...vacancy on the Dies Committee he appointed California's earnest young Representative Jerry Voorhis, good friend of Red Rover Amlie and, since the departure of Texas' Maury Maverick,* leader of the Young Turks in the House. Son of a millionaire, Jerry Voorhis turned down a fat sum his father offered to set him up in business. Instead, after getting his $BK at Yale, he worked as a cowboy in Wyoming, later in an automobile assembly plant, became a Socialist, lectured on labor problems at Pomona College until dismissed. He took the headmastership of a school endowed...
...Reading fat, second-rate novels nowadays is like watching the wake of a ship: they stir up a lot of suds, produce a certain hypnotic effect, and a few hundred yards back, leave no trace...
...congested, multiform play. If the production has faults, they spring from excess of theatricality, not from taking Shakespeare too reverently. As Falstaff, Actor Evans has gusto and wit, though not quite enough of the knight's profound worldliness. And-perhaps surprisingly-he is better as the fat roisterer than he was as the melancholy Dane...
...BIGGER THEY COME-A. A. Fair-Morrow ($2). Introducing fat, profane Detective Bertha Cool and her runty assistant Donald Lam. Slot-machine racketeers in a Southwestern locale, with a jackpot ending that turns on a neat legal trick...