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Last week the Society re-elected its general secretary, Rev. Dr. William Henry Matthews, and its second vice president, plain, plump Mrs. Finley Johnson (Helen Gould) Shepard, famed for her riches and good works...
...doon an' dee." Annie Laurie's parents locked her in her stone-walled bedroom until she stopped her mooning, sadly consented to marry respectable Alexander Fergusson who had rich holdings in Cragdarroch down the glen. Willie Douglas went off and got married soon after. Annie Fergusson grew plump and placid. Nearly 150 years passed before Willie Douglas' poem was discovered by Lady (John) Scott, who married into Sir Walter's clan and spent half her time riding over the countryside looking for antiques. Lady Scott wrote the music for "Annie Laurie," first popularized by the British...
...insisted, "is a monopoly, make no mistake about it"; shot at the Post Office Department for its contention that newspapers are largely responsible for the heavy deficit on second-class mail; proposed coinage of a 3?-piece to make it simpler to sell 3? newspapers; re-elected Howard Davis, plump business manager of the New York Herald Tribune, as president; went home...
...plump, impudent artfully infantile young woman named Helen Kane began to appear in vaudeville. In her songs she usually replaced the lyrics with extraordinary noises. Presently her favorite noise, "boop-boop-a-doop," became a recognized word in vaudeville's nonsense language. By 1928, Helen Kane had innumerable imitators. In 1931, there appeared in animated cinema cartoons a character called Betty Boop...
...Saturday Jan. 15, 1916, lady-like chatter rang through the Victorian mansion at No. 856 Fifth Avenue as 24 players sat down to bridge. Over the six tables presided a plump, erect matron. When the game was over she rose, announced the prizes: one share of U. S. Steel preferred for each table. Steel preferred was $117 a share that day. The prizes totaled...