Word: plump
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...happy to be back and to see so many familiar faces again," he called. The cars moved on up the hill to the plump Norman tower of Windsor Castle...
...Than plump Lieut. Commander Joseph Montague Kenworthy, M. P., the Liberal who turned Laborite two years ago "To Get Action," the statesman who once said of H. G. Wells, "the old gentleman has gone gaga," the British Laborite party has no more conspicuous member. Last week as plump Commander Kenworthy was preparing for a hotly contested general election, his mother had a fist fight with her landlady...
With increasing satisfaction Marion, Va., realizes that Sherwood Anderson is no longer the sinister, black-haired hobo whose face the advertisements used to show marked by unspeakable passions, by furrows and pouches suggesting unmentionable artistic orgies. Sherwood Anderson has become a plump, benign, grey-haired citizen, radiating goodwill. Unlike Sinclair Lewis, baiter of smalltownsmen, Sherwood Anderson has said: "I like people just as they are. I do not want to change...
...presented by Comrade Maxim Maximovitch Litvinov, Assistant Commissar for Foreign Affairs of the Soviet Union. When he first went to Geneva (TIME, Dec. 5, 1927) he said that Soviet Russia was ready to completely disarm within one year, if all other nations would do likewise. Since then, plump, indefatigable Comrade Litvinov, who looks like a squirrel with a nut in either cheek, has been slowly learning that whatever plan he may offer will be pigeonholed, at least for some time to come...
There are some perfectly harmless words which an English gentleman cannot come right plump out with. Reporters covering the Conservative Party keynote speech, delivered last week by Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin in Drury Lane Theatre, noticed that he paused perceptibly and shifted his shoulders the merest trifle in the middle of the following sentence: "I come now to the subject of [pause] maternity...