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Word: plumped (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sumptuous color for which the great Venetian is famed, Education of Cupid shows a plump, blonde Venus handing a sheaf of arrows to a Cupid with blue-tipped wings, while a half-nude handmaiden looks on admiringly and two muscular brown satyrs hoist high in the air baskets of doves and fruit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Cupid for Chicago | 11/9/1936 | See Source »

...Susan, a portrait study of a plump young blonde by Eugene Speicher...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: One-Shot Winner | 10/26/1936 | See Source »

Because of this peaceful trend, Manila's Mayor Juan Posadas, plump and proud possessor of the title of "Comendador de la Real Orden de Isabel la Católica" conferred upon him by Spain, paid no attention whatever last week when he received an anonymous letter warning him that Manila would burn the following night. The police went to bed and slept as hard as usual. Suddenly in the early hours of the morning there was an explosion. Then another and another. Just how many bombs went off nobody knew. Five or six unexploded bombs were discovered. One bomb...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PHILIPPINES: Shattered Sleep | 10/12/1936 | See Source »

Prime New Deal propaganda was a recent New Yorker cartoon which pictured a plump, baldish economic royalist murmuring to a reluctant, expensive young woman: "And if Roosevelt is not reelected, perhaps even a villa in Newport, my dearest sweet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Pajamas & Proof | 10/5/1936 | See Source »

...Francisco ("The Great Aztec") Olazabal, swarthy, plump Mexican faith-healer, rise beside their Founder, kiss him full in the mouth, declare he was bringing 50,000 Mexican followers into the lap of the Church of God of A. J. Tomlinson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Rollers at Cleveland | 9/28/1936 | See Source »

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