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Word: fatter (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...which are being built for American Airlines, has passed its tests, but is not yet in service. Similar to the DC2 in design, it is slightly longer, much fatter. Whereas DC2 seats 14, DST seats 24, has berths for 16. Cruising at 200 m.p.h., it can carry 24,000 lb. gross load, can fly across the continent with only one stop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Douglas Double | 2/3/1936 | See Source »

Most obvious ingredients in the West formula are her extraordinary shape, clothes and means of locomotion. In Goin' to Town she is fatter about the middle than hitherto. Her clothes are less extravagant and consequently less becoming. Her gait remains unchanged...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: May 20, 1935 | 5/20/1935 | See Source »

...human being precisely what he is. The balance changes during life, making the baby a boy, the boy a youth, the youth a man, the man a dotard. Disease or accident, food or medicine may alter the balance. Then one may be smarter or duller than natural, thinner or fatter, more brave or more backward. A woman with an overactive thyroid is a busybody with a quick pulse, a temperature slightly above normal. She wants to wolf all kinds of food. The doctor may quiet her by dosing her neck with x-rays or the surgeon may cut out part...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Manufactured Masculinity | 10/22/1934 | See Source »

Helen Kane grew fatter. Her infantilism grew less appropriate and profitable. Betty Boop remained babyish, alert, and so prosperous that her name has lately become almost as familiar in Manhattan courtrooms as that of Ella Wendel. Last month, Producer Max Fleischer whose firm makes Betty Boop cartoons, distributes them through Paramount, successfully sued a doll manufacturer for imitating Betty Boop. Last week it was Producer Fleischer and Paramount Publix Corp. who were sued by Helen Kane for $250,000 for copying her voice and mannerisms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Again, Boop | 4/30/1934 | See Source »

...court anteroom was darkened and three Betty Boop cartoons and one reel of a Helen Kane picture were projected on the wall. After this, Justice McGoldrick ruled that he had had enough, demanded records and music sung by Helen Kane and Betty Boop before he made a decision. Grown fatter but still talking with the voice of an indignant doll, Helen Kane explained her difficulties...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Again, Boop | 4/30/1934 | See Source »

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