Word: plum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Grinned Plum-Picker Hurja: "That sort of leaves me out in the cold as far as personnel is concerned...
...midcalf, below which ruffles, pleats, godets and full circular hems encrusted like a birthday cake with bows and shirrings facilitate locomotion. In lieu of fullness some of the tightest skirts are slit to the ankle or a little higher. ¶ Colors either match the opulence of curves with magenta, plum, Tommy Atkins red, petunia, rich blues and deep greens or turn innocently romantic in swirls of Edwardian pinks and blues. Frills and furbelows on skirts pop out in ruffled peplums and billowy bustles. ¶ Fripperies to complete the rich elegance of "Edwardian and earlier" include cameo brooches, heavy rhinestone trinkets...
...Author. Writing funny stories is not all sherry and biscuits to Pelham ("Plum") Grenville Wodehouse, 51. He started it as a release from the tedium of a high stool in the Bank of England where his father's sudden retirement landed him instead of in Oxford. His scribbling soon persuaded the head clerk ("dark...
...Catholic-the first Catholic governor in the 35 years of U. S. occupation. There their information stopped. What they did not realize was that Governor Gore, prominent Florida Democrat publisher of newspapers in Fort Lauderdale, Deland, and Daytona Beach had thumped loudly for Roosevelt, was now picking his political plum. Last week Governor Gore flew to Puerto Rico to take up his duties and announce a New Deal. As his airplane approached San Juan, he seized a microphone, broadcast a plea to Puerto Ricans for cooperation. Despite a downpour of rain there was a crowd waiting to welcome him, escort...
...good men. So thought many a Democratic Congressman who for three months had obediently taken his legislative orders from President Roosevelt in the expectation of patronage rewards at the session's end. Waiting to be distributed were thousands upon thousands of jobs ripening on the Administration's plum tree since March 4. New legislation had created thousands more. Because most of these new emergency jobs were not put under civil service, the National Civil Service Reform League last week loudly warned against the rush for "spoils." Some people even began to forecast "corruption." Postmaster General Farley had unsuccessfully...