Word: fatted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Through the U. S. mails, last week, went a fat letter. It was addressed to President John Grier Hibben of Princeton University and signed by Secretary of the Treasury Andrew W. Mellon. It contained Air. Mellon's theory of foreign debt settlements and a systematic rebuke to the academicians of Princeton and Columbia who recently urged a reconsideration and revision of the debt pacts. Soon President Hibben replied, and amid the clash of opinions facts became cloudy. But the following facts, as stated by Secretary Mellon, were not challenged...
...Lorillard Co. hired, for this trademark case, John W. Davis. Beech-Nut Packing secured Charles E. Hughes (1910-16 U. S. Supreme Court Justice). Less fortunate lawyers predicted the usual fat fees, said Lawler Davis had commanded in one case $5,000 a day, that Lawyer Hughes had received $100,000 for a single case. Both lawyers once ran for President and were defeated: Mr. Hughes in 1916, as the Republican candidate, Mr. Davis in 1924 on the Democratic ticket. Both illustrate the earnings-power of men in public life...
...Alexander Stirling Calder, Philadelphia born, has created his model pink with Dutch health. Her full face and bosom are redolent of Holland tulips. In her arm she holds a fat baby and in her other she grips a rifle. She is robust but beautiful...
...satisfaction. Yet loitering lobbyites who glanced up at them as they entered the hotel, and the nimble-witted telephone girl who placed their after-dinner calls, recognized scarcely a face. James J. Walker, the mayor, they recognized. But he was only a guest. And deep-jowled Irvin S. Cobb, fat-jowled Senator Borah, curly-wolf Judge Landis, smartly tailored Speaker Nicholas Longworth, well-oiled little Roger Wolff Kahn (jazzy son of opera-patron Otto H. Kahn)-were only guests. The company itself was as anonymous as a banquet of the Boot and Shoe Retailers' Association...
...good turn." (Example: Pick up a fat old lady's apple...