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...million-dollar libel suit last week threatened Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt just when her bank balance was beginning to fatten on the proceeds of her series of newspaper articles on "The Inside of Prohibition" (TIME,, Aug. 12 et seq.). In an instalment which flayed the meddlesomeness of the Anti-Saloon League, she trod on the tender toe of a onetime Prohibition enforcement chief at St. Louis...
...runs a few steps more while the blood spouts from his neck like a fountain. I fall into an open belly. I see a man biting his own arm. I see another stagger away holding his front in. We regain our trench. The rats leave our dugout, to fatten on dead and dying in No Man's Land...
...long lists of pension bills which daily fatten the Congressional Record are largely for military veterans, their relicts and heirs, or for retired Federal employes, in cases technically irregular under the tension laws...
While I was laid up with a fractured limb, my time was quite valueless, and shortly after having told my wife the story of the Northern salesman telling the Southern "cracker" that if he fed his hogs corn they would fatten up in one-half the time, to which the cracker had rejoined, "Aw, what's time to a hog," I happened to ask my wife "what time it was" she replied, "aw what's TIME...
...from these figures, other than ethical ones on the use of Scotch endowments, the duty of the tennis athlete is the clearest of these. Football toil has watered his courts, whitened his base lines and paid for his southern trip; courtesy, as one athlete to another, demands that he fatten the scholastic average of football by his presence on the squad. Double endeavor would perhaps create havoc among the statisticians; but that is a phenomenon, like the changing intelligence of a three letter man, which is overlooked in the Foundation's computations...