Word: fatness
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Just go ahead and make the admission in front of the girl.' " Another hold-up game practiced by members of the New York Police Department: arresting men on charges of "annoying women in the subway"; hustling them to jail; introducing them to certain bondsmen and "lawyers" who, for fat cash fees, hold "conversations" with the night court judges, get the cases dismissed, keep the victims' names out of the newspapers...
...mourned the fact that Cenizo was no longer living to take part in the ceremony. Cenizo, as all Caracans remember, was a dog of uncertain parentage who for nearly ten years slept on the base of the Bolivar statue in the Plaza Bolivar, appointed himself its official guardian, grew fat and imperious on the bounty of cafe proprietors, was the only dog ever to be an Honorary Citizen of the Republic of Venezuela...
...This fat, well-sated...
...William Crapo Durant, built the Durant plant in Oakland, Calif., a showplace of Western industry. Since 1929 he has headed Durant Motor Co. of California which assembles and sells Durants under a participation contract with Durant Motors, Inc. In selling. Mr. de Vaux has attained a great reputation, reaps fat commissions. He lives in Piedmont (across the Bay from San Francisco ) on an estate previously belonging to R. C. Durant, son of William Crapo. When not working, he is apt to be seen swishing around in fast speedboats, second in his heart only to automobiles...
...records are musical events. Each month TIME notes the noteworthy * Opera: Siegfried, by the London Symphony under Albert Coates and Robert Heger, the Berlin Staatsoper Orchestra under Leo Blech, the Vienna Staatsoper Orchestra under Karl Alwin and famed Wagnerian Singers (Victor, $15)-Tenor Lauritz Melchior, who looks like any fat boy when he sings Siegfried at Bayreuth and Manhattan's Metropolitan, proves an excellent phonograph artist. Contralto Maria Olszewska and Soprano Frida Leider, expert members of the Chicago Civic Opera, sing Erda and Briinnhilde. Die Meistersinger, the aria Wahn! Wahn! (Victor, $2)- As Cobbler Hans Sachs, Baritone Friedrich Schorr...