Word: tomming
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Another phenomenon of adiposity died in Los Angeles last week. He was Theodore Valanzula, who three weeks ago was side-showing at Coney Island, N. Y., as "Tom Ton, 960 Ibs." He had begun to get fatter, felt miserable, wanted to see his wife and three children. So he took a baggage car across the country. Home, a baggage truck transported him from train to hospital, where the institutional derrick hoisted him to bed. He had gained 100 pounds in the fortnight of illness. Doctors say his mortal half-ton died of myocarditis, dropsy and suffocation of the heart...
then to writing, and got famous under the name of Mark Twain. The college man was unveiling a monument to Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn done in bronze by Frederick Hubbard. He told how Tom Sawyer (who was really Clemens himself) had loved in the book a girl named Becky Thatcher, whose crinkling, twinkling jampot eyes had won him, whose enchanting ways had sung a song in his heart until he died. She was the flower of Missouri, said the college scholar; no girl had freckles golden as hers, no girl so jimp a leg. Once she had spent...
Died. Ng Ah Foon, 61, friend of "bosses" "Big Tim" Sullivan and Tom Foley, for three decades race-track betting commissioner to Manhattan's "Chinatown"; in Manhattan of diabetes...
Divorced. By Renee ("Big Parade") Adoree, cinema actress, Tom Moore, cinema actor, at Los Angeles...
...leadership of the vociferous Wet bloc. There is Jack Garner, the Democratic Chief on the Ways and Means Committee. It was he who united with Bill Green, the chairman, to make a non-partisan tax bill. That fellow with the flowing black locks, who looks so political-he is Tom Connally of Texas. He has a sharp tongue and uses it to tickle Republicans between the floating ribs. The thin little fellow with crutches-sharp face, dandy hair-is Upshaw, of course, the champion of prohibition. The Anti-Saloon League gives him $100 for every Dry speech he makes...