Word: fattening
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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...