Word: plump
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Edward, 33, eldest of the four brothers, and George, 25, the youngest, were accompanied by a plump gentleman in morning clothes and a high silk topper?Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin, who had brought with him his wife. (TIME, March 14). Because Canadians have been visited four times by Edward of Wales, but never before by a British Prime Minister in office, interest continued last week in Stanley Baldwin...
...Lihme drawing-room was the $50,000 "Portrait of an Old Man" which Peter Paul Rubens painted some 300 years ago, a patrician subject whose disdainful brow, thin smile and scornfully intelligent eye must have been a relief to the painter after his usual run of exuberantly plump females and amorous burlies. On the west wall of the same room would be a large canvas by Rubens' sensitive pupil, Anthony van Dyck, showing the Marchesa Lommelini, a 17th Century Genoese beauty, and her two infants, piously gowned, posed beside a statuette of Christ...
...Capital is still where a plump forefinger placed it; and last week His Majesty's Governor General, Viscount Willingdon, fittingly upheld there the dignity of the Crown by presiding over a series of Diamond Jubilee ceremonies lasting, on the principal day, from before noon until after midnight. Most impressive was the maiden ringing of a huge, sweetly toned new carillon from the Tower of the Canadian Parliament. As the bells pealed, their reverberations spread throughout the Dominion upon a network of repeatedly amplified radio waves...
...this "defamation" he was sentenced, 18 months ago, to serve five months in jail. As the hour of 1 p. m. approached last week, tout Paris kept an eager ear for news that policemen had swarmed over sandbags and barbed wire, rushed the "Camelots" and dragged a plump, irate editor to jail. Instead it was a group of Communists who first molested the Royalist premises...
Still it was obvious that something had to be done. The law courts could not be flouted. The blind goddess insisted upon seeing her order carried out. True, M. Daudet is a plump, spacious, jolly old defamer, but really, said the police, something must be done. It was decided to invite M. Daudet to jail. He was so informed two years ago, but the R. S. P. V. on the card brought forth from M. Daudet a polite regret. He, no doubt, "regretted that he was unable to accept Monsieur Le Prefect's kind invitation", and perhaps even hinted...