Thread:User talk:CodeCat/beef trust

I attempted to improve beef trust. I'm obviously not a wiktionary editor. That said, I couldn't help notice some misleading words in the definition: "conglomerate" is misleading; and "overweight" and "obese," in the unique context of the Beef Trust burlesque dancers, feels like a pejorative-POV mixup that misses the point — ironically. For about 45 years, Watson's "Beef Trust" ladies – according to their billing and entertainment trade press – "represented the ideal in female symmetry." Watson became a millionaire over this (before the Crash of 1929). Bear with here, but, put another way, "obese" and "overweight" was/were not was not in the eyes of the beholders of the day. The quote (by Mezz Mezzrow, I think, was pejorative, which is okay, but missed the spirit of the phrase. Eurodog (talk) 01:27, 3 March 2017 (UTC)