Word: buxomness
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What they seem to like is what Earl Wilson calls the three Bs-Booze, Busts, Behinds. (Sample Wilson leer: Carole Landis looks "like a chiffonier with its top drawer pulled out." Of another buxom girl, he wrote: "only a build in a girdled cage.") What his readers also get, every so often, is some of the most accurately recorded Broadway-and-Sports Americana since the late great Ring Lardner...
...enough to give any big-league manager chills & fever. No exceptions were Chicago's banjo-strumming Charlie ("Jolly Cholly") Grimm and Detroit's pug-nosed Irishman, Steve O'Neill. And what went for them went for their wives: plump, chestnut-haired Lillian Lyle Grimm and dark, buxom Mary Boland O'Neill...
...Buxom Mrs. Helen Virginia Somers, whose theory was that the Charter implements a plot to make the Duke of Windsor "king of the world." Qualified Mrs. Somers: "I know whereof I speak; I'm no crackpot...
Mark of the Russians. The Russian imprint was also everywhere. In their period of unilateral rule, the Russians had appointed the Bürgermeisters for all Berlin's boroughs and an Oberbürgermeister. They had opened, under their own rules, a few schools, movies, cafes. Their buxom women troops acted as sentries and traffic police. Their stolid Red Armymen drove confiscated cattle and horses along the Kurfurstendamm...
Emmy Sonnemann GÖring, the buxom actress whom buxom Reich Marshal Her mann Gring married in 1935, arrived last week at Neustadt, near NÜrnberg...