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Word: buxomly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Then he conferred anxiously with Attorney General Bennett and Lawyer Samuel Seabury, the referee in charge of the State's investigation of the city courts. Upshot: back went all but one of the girls to Bedford. The 48th, one Anna Peltz, whom the New York World described as "a buxom girl of 19 with a wiggling walk," was left in town to be retried as a test case...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORRUPTION: In Tammany Town | 2/2/1931 | See Source »

Spankers Spanked. To seize and spank ladies of the Opposition who demonstrate on his front steps, Dictator Gerardo Machado has his own buxom, heavy-handed female spanking brigade. Last week these spankers were upended and themselves soundly spanked by Cuban students disguised as women...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CUBA: Spanks, Clubs, Cane | 1/26/1931 | See Source »

...Willingdon was made Governor General of Canada. Gerard Frederick Freeman-Thomas, his eldest son, served in the Coldstreams, was killed in the War. In 1924 Lord Willingdon's second son, the Hon. Inigo Brassey Freeman-Thomas married Maxine, daughter of emaciated Sir Johnston Forbes-Robertson, famed Hamlet. Dimpling, buxom Lady Willingdon was a noted beauty in her youth, and a literal Lorelei. Years ago, returning to Britain from Australia, Mrs. Freeman-Thomas, as she then was, gave a large dinner party in the saloon of the P & O liner Clima, which was eagerly attended by the captain, chief officer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Curling Viceroy | 12/29/1930 | See Source »

...faced, protuberant-eyed Author Lewis found himself beside Princess Ingrid, blonde Royal granddaughter, thus had a definite edge of precedence over the three other Nobel Prizemen present: Medical Researcher Dr. Karl Landsteiner (Manhattan), Chemist Hans Fischer (Munich) and Physicist Sir Chandrase- Hara Venkata Raman of Calcutta (TIME, Nov. 24). Buxom, brunette Mrs. Lewis had at her elbow His Majesty's youngest brother Prince Eugen, 65. She remarked heartily afterward, "I have a date with him for Sunday...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SWEDEN: Sauk Center & Plate of Gold | 12/22/1930 | See Source »

Maria Jeritza, buxom blonde Metropolitan Opera singer, instituted legal proceedings against Dr. Muller Guttenbrunn at Vienna because she thought that his book Riff Raff, which deals with a family continually embroiled in lawsuits, defamed her. When she first heard the book was being written she had the Viennese censor scrutinize it; when it was published she obtained legal authority for its confiscation. Her reason for believing the book was detrimental to her: the author is a brother-in-law of a maid whom she dismissed from her home in Vienna...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Nov. 17, 1930 | 11/17/1930 | See Source »

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