Word: buxom
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Puritan's Progress" unfolds the plight of an "A" student who falls into the toils of a buxom Dorchester lass. To be blunt, and the play is, he has to marry her. To his rescue comes Uncle Joe Whipple, erstwhile Beacon Hill Harvardian who has spent his post-college life in the Yukon. Uncle Joe lays $50,000 in gold on the line if young Whipple gets kicked out and marries Dorchester's Polly Dugan. Whip tries hard, aided by his room-mates. But something always comes up to change the whole aspect of his misdemeanors...
Organizers of the Progressive Schools' Committee were Mr. & Mrs. William Mann Fincke Jr., who run little Manumit School on a 175-acre farm in the Berkshire foothills at Pawling, N. Y. Aided by scholarship funds from an anonymous philanthropist, Mrs. Fincke, a buxom, vivacious blonde, daughter of famed Feminist Louise Fowler Gignoux, took under her motherly wing six adult refugees (including a German actress who supported herself and daughter in the U. S. by scrubbing floors), 23 children (Gentiles & Jews) of lawyers, bankers, teachers, artists. Last week Mrs. Fincke had some astounding stories to tell of refugees' behavior...
Living quietly in a comfortable brick house on Washington's S Street for the past 18 years, drawing a $5,000 yearly pension from the Government and occasionally entertaining a few friends at bridge, has been a buxom dowager of 66 who once set the U. S. on its ear. That was in the fall of 1915 when as Edith Boiling Galt, handsome, middle-aged widow of a Washington jeweler, she consented to marry 58-year-old Thomas Woodrow Wilson, 28th President of the U. S. This week Mrs. Edith Boiling galt Wilson once more made news when...
Twenty years ago a patch-mustached Austrian nobleman, Captain Georg von Trapp, commander of an Austrian submarine, came home from the War to his family castle near Salzburg. There he and his buxom wife, Frau Maria Augusta, settled down to the serious business of raising their family. The family flourished. By 1921 it included seven small von Trapps; and there were more to come...
Promoter of smart shops, smart travel, and now smart hotels, Bernice Bost is a bustling, buxom divorcée. Last fall, when Papal Knight George MacDonald acquired an interest in Henry Doherty's hotel and resort properties, she went to New York, charmed his secretary with a telephone call and a "Dear-Miss-Kindly-Secretary-Whose-Name-I-Do-Not-Know" letter, sold MacDonald on the plan...