Word: fatted
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...fat, has fabulous bushy red eyebrows. From his office window he keeps a sharp eye on the campus, often roars commands across the green at boisterous lower-formers. The story goes that only once did the Doc's roars fail to achieve their intended effect. A kitchen worker ran amok through the Middle House one morning, brandishing a cleaver. When the man paid no heed to the Doc's bellowing, Dr. Hume took off his coat, knocked the fellow down, sat on his chest and calmly told his pupils to call the police...
...mystery. On the evening of his first try at playacting, the novelist is found shot in his hotel bed room. Suspected are a whole stageful of sophisticates, including the novelist's mistress, a South American general, a shy French playwright, brilliantly acted by Austrian Oscar Karlweis, and a fat, macabre play director, who threatens just before the body is found: "I'll club him to death with his own truss." Crime Club members may get to thinking about the denouement and decide they were robbed. Less sophisticated mystery lovers probably get their money's worth...
...Yule took the job, with misgivings. While the hushed crowd of 15.000 watched, Judge Yule weeded out the entries to the four finalists: two from Purdue University, "Loyal Alumnus III" and "College Maid"; the University of Alberta's "Robin Hood" and 18-year-old Evelyn Asay's fat little "Sargo." Judge Yule paced from one to another in solemn worriment, arms hang ing, fingers outstretched like a house guest looking for a towel. Finally he waved the Purdue entries aside. Josh Biglands, sawedoff, red-faced herdsman of the University of Alberta, shortened his grip on "Robin Hood...
Another editor once called Grover Hall "a fat radical advised by a cat named Clarabelle." Famous through the South was Clarabelle, Grover's office cat. When she died last fall, Associated Press put her obit on the wire. For the Advertiser Editor Hall wrote an editorial a column and a half long. Said he: "At this moment of sadness the Advertiser beseeches its friends and the followers of Clarabelle NOT to give this office another cat! The Advertiser is fed up on cats and does not wish to be bothered with another...
...best circles. French had decided the Narrows bridge was a good bet. booked it himself. Arrested last week on a grand larceny charge, he admitted he had kept the policies secret from his company, kept some $8,000 in premiums to apply on a personal budget which included fat sums for social clubs, a new home on Seattle's swank Broadmoor Drive, frequent visits to nearby Longacres race track. After investigation, a Seattle prosecutor concluded that high-living Hal French had held out other policies too, pocketed perhaps as much...