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...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...
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...
...affairs are metamorphosed. Impressionable young Dersingham (Twigg is dead) makes a vague sort of manager out of Golspie, who scorns a partnership. Prosperity descends upon the stuffy office. Everyone is cheered, and if Smeeth, withered cashier, Lilian Matfield, condescending stenographer, or Turgis, scrawny young clerk, could any of them fatten they would...
...security and fraught with such danger that the Imperial Government has become alarmed, launched an investigation. Small shopkeepers, their business ruined, charge that in fact more than 200,000,000 yen floats in gift certificates, the ignorant public receiving no interest, while the big stores invest and fatten on the money...
Quail Stuffers. To fatten quail for market, Italian and Polish gaveurs (bird stuffers) work in Paris market-hall cellars, chewing up grain and fruit into a pap which they let the quail eat from their mouths. The pecking quail abrade the gaveurs' lips, noses, chins. The peckmarks become infected, ulcerated; the gaveurs are miserable, sometimes die. ... So reported the Journal of the American Medical Association, ever on the alert for new occupational diseases...