Word: buxomly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mother's scene is China, a small, poor village. Readers will notice gratefully that almost no proper names are used. The heroine is a buxom, warm-tempered young wife who finds her hard life good. Days she spends in the field working beside her man. At evening she cooks for her three children and her aged mother-in-law. She has no spare time and knows what the future will be, but her only worries, soon forgotten, are her daughter's sore eyes, her husband's occasional moody discontent. Her happiness is shattered when...
...could find a good man." Three months in the U. S. this autumn was sufficient for Mr. Neal. Last week he sent his magnificent Maybach-Zeppelin limousine back to France on the 5. S. De Grasse, departed on the 5. S. lie de France with his buxom young wife, his buxom young French secretary, his 9-year-old son Nen La Motte Sage (after the father's pseudonym), maids, valet. 30 trunks, 40 other pieces of luggage. Proudly he carried with him a green leather booklet signed B. Mussolini. The booklet is his "Fascist Membership Card," which he treasures...
...buxom German housemaid, trapped by the flames, was coaxed by Jackson to slide precariously down a drain pipe...
Meanwhile buxom English-born Mrs. Ivy Low Litvinoff, cheery wife of the Foreign Commissar, left their four-room apartment in a converted garage with her grave, acutely class-conscious 16-year-old son Mischa. Together they hurried to the Soviet Commissariat of Communications. Proud as punch. Soviet technicians placed before them a Russian-made telephone, bade them talk by short wave radio to Comrade Litvinoff, seated in the Oval Room of the White House. "Millions of Americans will listen to you on their radio networks!" cried the chief Red technician proudly. "Say whatever you wish...
...other figure was a buxom octoroon woman in her 30's, wearing a high white turbanish mobcap, a bright embroidered shawl and a black silk dress. She was famed Marie Leveau, sometime hairdresser, New Orleans' potent Voodoo Queen, one of the country's first and most successful blackmailers. The picture Painter Catlin made is the only portrait of Queen Marie to survive...