Word: squatness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...advertisements for a cigar which is, in appearance, somewhat squat, in odor, somewhat acrid, has been pictured a face known to all lovers of loud music-the face of John Philip Sousa. The famed bandmaster was depicted gazing in tender contemplation at the squat object or, with a presumably acristogy inserted between his crisp military mustache and his neat professional Van dyke, enjoying a happy solace while he listened, rapt, to some exalted strain. Last week Lieut. Commander Sousa began a Supreme Court action to re cover $100,000 damages from the P. Lorillard Co., which had thus, without...
...Inside Story of the Paris Divorce Mill, by one Frazier Hunt, is the leading article in the current Hearst's International. In it, the author tells how "a squat fat French legal man, the sign on whose door read: "Divorce Judgments in 1½ Months," promised him for two thousand francs ($100) a divorce in from four to six weeks "if his wife made no fuss." When Mr. Hunt stated that his wife was in the U. S., the lawyer replied: "As far as your wife is concerned, we will simply get her a fake certificate of domicile...
...second half went differently. There were new figures in the Trojan backfield -Le Febvre, squat and square; Newman, a Red Indian called "Chief." Now one, now the other of these two, shot into the scrimmage or off around an end. They scored a touchdown, two touchdowns; and a "1 minute later "Chief" Newman, doubling back deceptively, launched a long, high pass to Phythian, substitute Trojan end, who stumbled over for a third score as he caught the ball...
...Fevre, squat and square...
...squat, fat French legal...