Word: fatten
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...work as Brady, Universal paid Edward Arnold $5,000 a week, ordered him to fatten up. Eating is Actor Arnold's only hobby. In his dressing room, the only one on the Universal lot with a private kitchen, he consumed enormous lunches of boiled beef with horseradish sauce, crawfish, Wiener Schnitzel and beer. He took pleasure in eating on the set, put on 15 lb. while the picture was in production. At the Beverly Crest house where he lives with his wife and three children, and where each piece of furniture is tagged with a brass plate giving...
Perhaps prophetically, the stamp ducks look a little plumper than the ones which "Ding" used to put in his conservation-propagandizing cartoons. He hopes the proceeds from the stamp sale will help fatten all the wild ducks in the land. Said he last week: "No one is under any obligation to kill a duck just because he owns a Federal hunting stamp, nor is there any rule to prevent a man who wants to help restore the migratory waterfowl from purchasing several of these duck-saving stamps. Every dollar will be devoted to the cause of conservation...
Best feature idea Editor Patterson ever had was to fatten the size of the Sunday comic section. Because he felt that the encroachment of comic advertising had made the real funny strips too small, he ordered the section increased from eight to 16 pages last autumn. He reckoned that the addition might bring a 50,000 circulation gain. Instead the Sunday circulation, which then averaged 2,000,000, leaped enormously every Sunday until last month when it hit 2,313,000, a gain of more than 500,000 over last spring. Advertising, daily and Sunday, also gained enormously...
...where Wall Street had failed. Through Son-in-law John Charles Martin, Mr. Curtis poured money lavishly into the Evening Post, gave it the finest new plant in the city. Socialite Julian Starkweather Mason was hired as editor to give the sheet circulation. But still the Post did not fatten and thrive. Lately it has been losing money at the rate of $25,000 per week. When the experiment of making it a tabloid last September failed Publisher Martin could think of only one more thing. By last fortnight, all New York knew that the Post would presently be sold...
...Parisian circles which fatten on tourists and rich appetites, a potent name is that of Clement ("Clem") Hobson. Out of Britain came Mr. Hobson some years ago to buy famed Ciro's restaurant on the Rue Daunou, later to control the music hall-restaurant des Ambassadeurs in the Champs-Elysées and several famed hot spots in Biarritz...