Word: fats
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Indicating Capone who looked fat, sleek, self-satisfied, State's Attorney Hawthorne told the court: "It's no crime to let a rattlesnake live but if you allow one to roam loose in your backyard where it may bite children, any court in the world will declare it a nuisance and authorize its abatement." Insisted Capone's counsel: "No matter how bad Capone may be, he has a perfect right to reside in this community as long as he is law-abiding." Judge Paul D. Barns took the padlock petition under advisement...
...noticed in another gutter last week a gold medal, returned it in the same way to U. S. Ambassador Walter Evans Edge. On his goodwill tour of French industrial cities Mr. Edge received the medal (commemorative) at Strassbourg, famed home town of pâté de foie gras (fat goose liver) a French delicacy greatly appreciated by most U. S. citizens...
...when they lent him to other companies, he quit work and went through bankruptcy to settle the company's suit for $200,000 damages. Directing All Quiet on the Western Front he was knocked unconscious by a piece of plaster blown from a dynamited church. He is fat, witty, a brilliant organizer. Some of his pictures: The Garden of Eden, The Racket, The Betrayal...
...Moscow the counter-religious magazine Besbozhnik ("The Atheist") faced Easter Sunday last week with a fat register full of boys' and girls' names...
Factually fat was the 1,470-page Official Catholic Directory for 1930, published last week. Among its most significant facts...