Word: plumped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...incredible plan, which his superiors prudently quashed before he had a chance to try it. It was to lure Colonel Henry W. T. Eglin from his post with the 62nd Coast Artillery at Fort Totten, N. Y. to a Manhattan hotel, where he would have been induced, either by plump Fraulein Hofmann or by violence, to surrender certain "secret mobilization plans...
Compared with his first novel, Starting Point shows a marked improvement-its theme is more mature, its prose less fluttery. Its four central characters are Oxford roommates: Theodore, a small, plump, precocious, post-Huxleyan cynic; effeminate, peace-loving Henry; John, a shy, radical, brilliant science student; and Anthony, popular, versatile, idealistic son of a rich, liberal M. P. The time...
...that his wife, Bertha Mae, had been sideswiped by a dairy truck in East St. Louis, knocked to the pavement where she gave premature birth to a dead child. Mr. Womack added that he would settle his claim immediately for $2,000. Preferring to investigate, a company representative found plump Bertha Mae bedded in a local hospital. Physicians decided she had given birth to a child but could discover no evidence of external injury. Carrying his inquiries further among insurance adjusters, the investigator learned so much about Mr. Womack, a onetime insurance agent, that last week he and an impressive...
Actress Julie Haydon plays radiantly as the simple-hearted slavey, makes the Canon's conversion entirely credible. Chief among the excellent supporting cast is Sara Allgood. Her plump, pious spinster was so richly comic that first-nighters chortled at her every gesture...
...short stories than of his novels, The Prodigal Parents is notable only for the stern tone it adopts toward the Communist Party and for its sympathetic portrait of the type of U. S. businessman Lewis has previously satirized. The story revolves around the rebellion of Frederick William Cornplow, a plump, prosperous, middle-aged automobile dealer of Sachem Falls, N. Y., who is a dead ringer for Babbitt...