Word: plump
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Plump, ruddy-faced Interim Senator Thomas More Storke (Dem.) of California is editor and publisher of the Santa Barbara News-Press. He has long been such a close friend of his neighbor, Senator-reject William Gibbs McAdoo, that California papers call him "Deputy Senator." In Washington he knew enough not to take the 20 job-hunting letters he received every day too seriously. Instead he read Jim Farley's instructive autobiography, dined with friends at the Shoreham Hotel, danced to his favorite tune- The Last Roundup. "This is just a honey-moon," he said...
...Congo river region, although one was once found in Flushing Bay, thoroughly defunct. He said that man's brain ranged from one-fiftieth to one eightieth of his total weight, depending largely on whether weight, depending largely on whether he is of the thin, Group I variety or the plump dropped Freshmen type. The Dodatmors, on the other hand, have brains a long one-fortieth of their weight...
...which the "outhousers" suffered, proposed "that the outhousers may, regulating the supply so as to keep up the price, be offered for sale to the persons of quality and fortune throughout the College; always taking care that they eat plentifully in the last month, so as to render them plump and fat for a good table...
...former leaders had been indifferent toward the welfare of good Young Communists but had protected "inveterate drunkards," "double-dealers," even those who were "morally corrupt." The net of this seemed to be that the exuberant Youth paper had taken a little too enthusiastically the Dictator's plump for World Revolution two weeks before. With Unifier Zhdanov on the job, the Party press and the Government propaganda agency will get a better idea of what each other...
...Tropic of Cancer was surprising literary news not only because of its underground reputation. It revealed the recent revival of interest in the neglected field of experimental writing-that cloudy area of modern letters with its little magazines, obscure poems, defiant manifestoes, communications from Ezra Pound. In Manhattan a plump, handsome periodical, Twice a Year, took up where The Dial left off a decade ago. In Paris appeared The Black Book, a novel by Lawrence Durrell, who gave promise of outdoing Henry Miller in the form that admirers call the dithyrambic novel and that others call plain old-fashioned pornography...