Word: plump
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...Nurse, having completed her private business, came bustling in with the air of one restored to life after a dangerous illness. "Tom, you naughty boy, is this the way you entertain your guests? Poor little Jenny, all by herself under the table." The nurse was plump and middleaged; an old-fashioned nanny...
...general see things through together-with Sid anticipating the outcome the first time General Mel turns up in civvies: "He looked like a plump and middle-aged nonentity, whom you might meet at a golf club and immediately forget, and whose face you could not place." The general's Pentagon pals try to break up the affair with Dottie, but they needn't have worked so hard at it. It was never Dottie's idea to live in a cottage with a general turned nonentity. She decides to ditch him, but has the good grace...
After spending a quiet summer vacation at home in Spokane, where she played the role of sportswoman, went mountain fishing, hooked a plump Kamloops trout and had a photograph to prove it, Metropolitan Opera Soprano Patrice Munsel returned to Manhattan to find a goodly catch there, too: three new roles for the winter opera season, plus news that her first popular recording, Bella Bimba, was headed for big sales...
...kiss his hand, which makes him happy. The party is really run by a group of rich, unscrupulous newcomers, led by huge Fuad Serag el Din, Wafd secretary general and Minister of the Interior & Finance. Serag el Din's good friend and ally is Madame Zeinab Nahas, the plump, grasping wife whom the Premier married 15 years ago, when she was 25 and he was 60. Western observers generally describe her as Egypt's evil genius...
...William Cowper's kindly beckoning, the readers of two centuries have lulled away many a peaceful evening-cheered, but never inebriated-at the mild brew of his poetry. Cowper (rhymes with hooper) is remembered fondly as a plump old country gentleman in a billowy cap; apt to giggle, but otherwise of a most pleasing conversation; delighted with his bed of pinks, devoted to his hares; the least pretentious and the most lovable of England's 18th Century poets...