Word: plum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week's election for the Democratic nomination to fill the unexpired Senate term of Hugo LaFayette Black presumably meant a seven-year job because it tacitly carried with it a good chance for the nomination for the full term next year. For such a prime political plum, Tom Heflin, weary of the smaller jobs he had been given since his defeat in 1930, entered the race this autumn against Chairman J. Lister Hill of the House Military Affairs Committee...
...light opera still goes on, for even in Manhattan many a theatregoer would still rather swoon to a waltz than tap his restless feet to the beat of a topical song. For such oldsters-by-preference, the Shuberts' second Christmas present, Three Waltzes, was as good as a plum pudding ablaze with Napoleon brandy...
...lowers her eyebrows and leers Barrymorishly, poses in her swishing draperies. Her voice still sounds like a primeval maiden's wailing for a demon lover. She still brings to the theatre talent in such abundance that, compared to her, most other actresses are as watery custard to rich plum pudding...
...more square miles of Leftist territory, and Leftists in turn nibbled away three square miles from the Right. The Left advance was in the vague, poorly held line northwest of Cordoba in the south, while the Rightist bite, close to the Pyrenees near Jaca, included a rich plum, the strategically important San Pedro Hill, one of the key points in the long delayed, highly advertised Rightist offensive on the Aragon front that was to end the war before winter...
...corpuscles eventually replace the decimal points in Atterbury's blood. Miss Plum teaches him jujitsu and the rhumba, becomes his secretary. He refuses to send to Switzerland for edelweiss. He causes Miss Cheri to break her contract under the moral turpitude clause by getting her so drunk she slips under a table in the Biltmore. When the bank sells the studio over his head and fires him, he organizes studio employes to defy the new owner, throws Nassau out with a jujitsu hold, saves Cheri's last picture by having it recut to star a gorilla. Stand...