Word: plump
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Married. Eva Tanguay, 48, plump, red-haired vaudeville comedienne, who played Cedric Errol in Little Lord Fauntleroy; to one Allan Parado, 25, her Hungarian accompanist, secretly, a month...
...Hearst Mirror and the Patterson-McCormick Daily News, and abetted by an accommodating judge, proceeded with an exploitation to which previous obscenities-the Arbuckle, Rhinelander, Hall-Mills and Chaplin cases-seemed a prelude almost refined. Pressing its usual policy, the Graphic had a paunchy man in pajamas and a plump girl in a film of silk underwear re-enact for Graphic cameras the more revolting moments described by Mrs. Browning. Faces of the real characters, their grievances exaggerated by retouchings, were then pasted in these photographs and the Graphic's front pages were spread with the admittedly faked results...
...last a plump, genial old man in a frock coat and a tall hat arrived. He took a pair of gold scissors from a pretty girl and began portentously to cut the ribbon...
...extolling what is unquestionably "the best written feature page in American journalism," the World's famed "opp.ed." (opposite editorial) page, where Franklin Pierce Adams like a bandar-log and Heywood Broun like St. Simeon Stylites ruminate at the foot and the head, respectively, of their columns; where are also plump Drama Critic Alexander Woollcott, Book Critic Harry Hansen, Music Critic Samuel Chotzinoff...
They were Mennonites, religious farmer-folk, from Canada. There were 81 men, a sturdy lot, many prematurely old, all wearing flowing beards, shovel hats, ecclesiastic long coats. Ninety-five women, plump, strong, wore long, full skirts, bright-colored shawls. There were 38 children. All spoke German, among themselves...