Word: fatted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...little Willie Pieck buckled down tc his new job in Berlin's eastern sector, fat and florid as usual, thinking about great actions of world significance...
...years of reading newspapers and magazines he also collected a fat list of prospects and some dope about them, not all of it straight. He noted that Gretchen Fraser, Olympic ski champion, had a 6-oz. gold trophy worth $210, that Movie Star Ann Sothern collected white Meissen figurines, that Joseph Toth, a Mansfield, Ohio gun collector had 35 fine machine pistols, that Schwab's Drugstore in Beverly Hills, Calif, stocked $200 gold lighters, that the E. L. Doheny home in Los Angeles had gold bathroom fixtures, and that "rich people live in Ten Hills, Baltimore...
This week the 104-year-old Gazette, now a pale, thin shade of its once fat and enormously profitable self, got a new girl. Unlike the heroine of Irving Berlin's hit of the '30s, she was no brunette chorus cutie to adorn its cover, but a long-legged, thirtyish blonde newshen to be its boss...
There were other attractions. For 25 lire, Communists could measure their strength by pulling a huge sickle which-when pulled hard enough-brought a huge hammer crashing down on the head of a fat capitalist dummy in frock coat and top hat. For less athletic comrades, Unità made its points more subtly, in exhibits of socio-political art and Russian literature. An elderly Russian woman in a lacy Ukrainian peasant blouse stood by the book exhibit. A young associate explained: "Mrs. Jakobs is here on purpose to translate the Russian writings into Italian for the comrades. If a comrade...
Among Bernays' recommendations (which fill a fat notebook): a manual for producers with pooled know-how on the most economical production techniques; standardized financing and accounting; an industry clinic in promotion and advertising; training courses in behavior for box office personnel, ushers, concessionaires and house managers; a credo pledging the theater to fair dealing, courtesy, comfort, efficient operation-with enforcement of ethical practices by the Better Business Bureau. Bernays would also harness women's clubs, youth groups, universities, cultural leaders, etc. into a vast public relations campaign for the theater...