Word: plump
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...help Gossard cash in on this huge boom, the directors fortnight ago elected a new president: Gonzague Alexander Savard, 47, a plump, hustling French Canadian who had climbed from office boy to president in 31 years by his talent for production and labor relations...
Instead, The Black Rose devotes much of its footage to an unlikely romance between Power, as the self-exiled bastard son of a Norman earl, and a prattling slave girl-played by plump-cheeked young (20) French Starlet Cecile Aubry as if she were a fugitive from Little Women. Power's odyssey through Asia with a stuffy fellow exile (British Actor Jack Hawkins) is sandwiched between long, talky sequences picturing Norman-Saxon strife in England. And from time to time the film wanders off on little verbal jags to point up its sentimental moral: that...
During 23 years as Dean of London's St. Paul's, Dr. William Ralph Inge (rhymes with sing) had blazed away at many a plump and unsuspecting target. His massive pulpit barrages against smug optimism earned him the nickname of "the Gloomy Dean," and his 31 books won him a reputation as "the most formidable literary dean since Swift." Last week, 16 years and eight books after his retirement, it was evident that 90-year-old Dean Inge had not yet run out of ammunition. In Cambridge for a meeting of Britain's Modern Churchman...
...Greek drachmas (33?) to the lucky Greek digger who had made the find. Later, they compared the hand with those of a number of American girl students who were taking part in the digging. "It was an exquisite piece of sculpture," Charbonneaux recalled. "But much more plump than their nervous modern hands. It looked more like that of our fat female Greek cook...
...Shavian way when it is not trying to be like Norman Douglas' South Wind. It is as far from either model as it is from the double target roughly caricatured in the description of Professor Lissom. The professor is somewhere south-southeast of Philosopher Bertrand Russell and the plump Bloomsbury hedonist, C.E.M. Joad. All that fidgety Satirist Menen succeeds in doing in his jape is to remind the reader what neat debaters those...