Word: buxomly
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...hospitals the women Fascists pass on Italy's peculiar kind of "feminism." Politically aggressive in other countries, feminism in Italy is politically self-effacing, advertises the beauties of motherhood and domesticity. It advises women factory workers to quit their jobs if possible, all women to grow "healthfully buxom," "give strong, healthy children to the country...
...famed Erlanger-Fixel case (TIME. Dec. 28. 1931). Early in 1930 Abraham Lincoln Erlanger, wealthy theatre man, died, bequeathing to his brother and sisters an estate estimated at $75,000,000.* In 1912 he had been divorced, forbidden to remarry in New York State. At his death appeared a buxom ex-chorus girl named Charlotte Pixel who. as "Mrs. Erlanger," contested the will. The trial lasted for twelve weeks before Surrogate John Patrick O'Brien, now Mayor of New York. Charlotte Pixel called 125 witnesses to swear that she had been publicly recognized and accepted as Erlanger...
...never seen much life. A pathologically shy bachelor, he finally decided to take a holiday in Italy and do a thing or two while there was yet time. He liked being in Capri out of season and got along beautifully till he fell in love with buxom young Caterina. Then his troubles started. When he finally persuaded her to run off with him by night, the romantic row to the mainland nearly killed him. Then he found himself in the midst of a crazy colony of foreigners whose erotic antics were hardly a help in furthering his own love affair...
...them and goes on to tell of Trotsky who "might almost have been one of those Society of Jesus guys"; and Hitler ("Funny name too! . . .ha, ha, ha!"); as well as good "old Mussolini" snatch babies, "youthies," "giovanni." the outcome is that Trotsky has "the big hips of a buxom nanny and the frowning mask of an emotional Polish pianist," an immense advantage over Mussolini and Hitler ("ha, ha, ha again") who can only shout the magic word "Giovenezza...
Last week Erwin, Wasey & Co. Inc. advertising agency supplied the missing facts about Jim & Minny. In 1902 Minny Hanff, 17, a buxom Manhattan schoolgirl, began selling verses and children's stories to newspapers. When Hecker H-O Co., makers of Force, held an advertising contest, Minny conceived the character of Sunny Jim, submitted jingles about him. The company paid her $100 for the idea, ordered more verses. Minny got her friend Dorothy Ficken, 16, to draw pictures of Sunny Jim. For a year they were kept busy. Then, to carry out a $1,000,000 advertising program, artists...