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Word: fattened (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...boast that John Bull was the first paper to call Germans "Huns." He gave David Lloyd George his two campaign slogans "HANG THE KAISER!" and "MAKE THE HUN PAY!" No paper was more obliging with atrocity stories; none, when the War was over, quicker to fatten on anti-U. S. prejudice. MORE SWANK FROM THE YANKS was one of his favorite headlines. He was passionately addicted to just one brand of champagne, Pommery Nature, 1906, and bought up almost the entire vintage. Before each of his roaring speeches, for which he was paid enormous fees, Horatio Bottomley would gulp half...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Death Of John Bull | 6/5/1933 | See Source »

Because the cold waters make phlegmatic British oysters disinclined to spawn, thousands of yearling U. S. oysters are imported to British waters annually, planted in British beds. U. S. oysters will not procreate in British waters. Like eunuchs they fatten but remain sterile...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Wales's Lean Spatfalls | 11/2/1931 | See Source »

Fond and normal though he is as a grandfather, strange as the ways of the Kookaburra* are the financial maneuvers of Premier John Thomas Lang of New South Wales, eccentric Laborite. Weeks ago he proposed to fatten the flabby treasury of his province by issuing "turnip money," i.e. paper money secured not by gold, but by the natural wealth of the country, turnips, mutton, wheat, etc. (TIME, Feb. 23). Dissuaded from this he next proposed that Australia should insist that Great Britain give her as favorable terms of debt settlement as Great Britain had received from the U. S. Last...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUSTRALIA: Kookaburra Finance | 4/6/1931 | See Source »

...charge of the store is Frederick Page, small, bone-spectacled, filled with anecdotes of such famed gourmets as Brillat. Savarin and Edward VII, who would have no paté de foie gras after he saw geese being stuffed with food the better to fatten their livers. To visitors of untrained appetites Mr. Page explains such delicacies as East Indian poppadums, cheeses-marmalades, honeys from Syria, Portugal, Greece, England; Bombay duck; cox-combs in jelly; grouse pie; vintage marmalades; sole farcie en champagne. He explains that Fortnum & Mason anxiously awaits the Department of Agriculture's permission to sell rare soups...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Fortnum & Mason Abroad | 3/30/1931 | See Source »

Little is known of Pavlova's private life, she believed so fervently in keeping it to herself. First sight of Pavlova in repose was startling: her legs were so obvious and so overdeveloped in comparison with her frail body. She took cod-liver oil in vain effort to fatten her trunk. As artist she was as jealous as she was confident of first place. As leader of her troupe she was a benevolent martinet. She bossed them sternly in their dance regimen, nursed them through their personal woes. Before every performance, despite her assurance of success and applause...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Death of a Swan | 2/2/1931 | See Source »

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