Word: buxom
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Elinor Whitney and Dorothy, buxom, frizzy-haired daughters of Manhattan Pastor Harry Emerson Fosdick, were appointed "grass cops" at Smith College. Armed with whistles, they will blow a smart blast whenever they see trespassers treading tender turf...
...many months Moscow citizens and U. S. visitors have learned to look sharp when street car No. 56 swung around a curve. At the throttle of No. 56 was buxom Motorwoman Alexandra Semeena, and Alexandra was a caution. Disdaining brakes, she made elderly Reds leap for their lives as she clanged through the streets. Heaven help the pushcart that, dawdled in her path. Last week, a month after the event, Moscow papers reported the end of street...
Unnerved by the prisoner's mild but fluttery behavior, several women whom he had stabbed and left for dead but who turned up as witnesses at the trial had hysterics, screamed, fainted in the court. But no less calm than the prisoner was one stolid, buxom peasant wench. She told how Kuerten had got her down, pierced her 30 times with a dagger "until the blade broke...
...Mabel Hayward put in a claim last week for a share of the Wendel estate. Buxom, 46-year-old Mrs. Hayward keeps house for a 76-year-old retired detective, Capt. Theodore Lawton, on his ramshackle farm at Wickford, R. I. She roves about the country with her two children during the summer, playing her mandolin, banjo and guitar at fairs and carnivals. She has a paper purporting to be the marriage certificate of the late John Gottlieb Wendel II, and one Hannah S. Holt, of Chelsea, Vt., dated 1855 (Mr. Wendel II, supposed never to have married, died...
...Morris County, N. J., Anna Horvath, 14, large, buxom, went frequently to shops, purchased cigarets. Since New Jersey law prohibits tobacco sales to minors, complaints were filed, shopkeepers were fined $10. Since New Jersey law awards fines to the complaining agent, The Commonwealth Humane Society of Woodridge, X. J., got the money. Last week a justice of the peace investigated. He found that Stephen Horvath, father of big Anna Horvath, was president of the Society. Mrs. Bietra Horvath, mother of Anna, was secretary & treasurer. Anna Horvath was a trustee. Stephen Horvath had made $100 per week in fines...