Word: plumped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mule's belly strap. Then Willie Sue Blagden got four solid clouts. Governor Futrell and the local sheriff protested that the Weems "funeral" was only propaganda, that Frank Weems was still alive, but their pooh-poohing paled beside a published photograph of Willie Sue Blagden exposing a plump thigh bearing a large black & blue mark...
...Added plump Mrs. Elizabeth ("Bess") Farley, whose desire for money is generally believed to be the prime reason for her husband's announced intention of leaving the Cabinet: "And tell him the Parleys aren't Roosevelts...
...earnest, orthodox, obedient, anxious to please. Much has been written of the physical strain of a Coronation service for a monarch. For an elderly Archbishop who must stand on his feet through all the hours of the service the strain is even greater. The crimson-coped Archbishop of York, plump William Temple, had little to do but weave about among the regalia. In 1902 at the Coronation of Edward VII, his father was Archbishop of Canterbury. Vividly last week he must have recalled that at that lengthy service Archbishop Temple's hands trembled so that he nearly dropped...
...West 44th Street to be voted en. One was Lawyer Susan Brandeis (Mrs. Jacob H. Gilbert), whose pet dislike is to be referred to as the daughter of Supreme Court Justice Louis Dembitz Brandeis because she does not want to trade on her father's fame. Plump, fortyish. the mother of two boys and a girl, Mrs. Gilbert is a member of the New York State Board of Regents (educational overseers) and maintains a Manhattan law practice with her husband...
...Jason Noble Pierce, who used to be Calvin Coolidge's pastor in Washington, and was brought to San Francisco in 1933 by a potent Californian, onetime Secretary of the Navy Curtis Dwight Wilbur. Methodist Lowther is tall, hawk-faced, spare, a liberal and a pacifist. Congregationalist Pierce is plump, jolly, a Wartime chaplain (see col. 2), American Legionary and 100% Republican. While Dr. Lowther was struggling to make a go of his hotel-church. Dr. Pierce, who said he "never liked a church without a problem," was engaged in increasing attendance at First Congregational Church, which had slipped during...