Word: girths
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...specially quotable or laugh-getting phrase in the candidate's speeches should be noted for reiteration Newspapers snatch at good little bits for front-page "boxes." Any cartoonable physical characteristics or appurtenances should be emphasized-as were Roosevelt's grin and spectacles, Taft's girth, Dawes's pipe. Smith...
...foolishly taken a three-year lease on a house in an isolated oasis. He thinks his troubles are over when a beautiful American girl, an admirer of his books, writes and asks him to marry her; but when she arrives she is rather taken aback, first by his unexpected girth and then by his menage. The last scene shows a sick, world-weary Max, having run away for the last time, being caught up to heaven in a nightmare finale...