Word: plumped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Diego, Calif., plump, henna-haired Mrs- America Will Grant, widow of Ulysses Simpson Grant Jr., sat down on a settee which came from the White House when her father-in-law was the 18th U. S. President, told newshawks of a complaint she has lodged in court against the owners of San Diego's 27-year-old U. S. Grant Hotel, once owned by her husband. Having lived in the hotel rent-free for years, penurious Mrs. Grant was recently ordered to pay $350 a month rent, restrict her use of hotel service to $25 a week. Grumbled...
...Manhattan Federal agents arrested stubby, mild-mannered John Torrio, Chicago's No. i racketeer in the early 1920's and Al Capone's onetime boss, for an ordinary revenue law violation (TIME, May 4). Bail was set at a supposedly prohibitive $100,000. Last week a plump, elderly woman walked into Manhattan's U. S. District Court, dipped deep into her black purse, pulled out a fat wad of bills, carefully peeled off 97 crisp $1,000 bills, four $500 bills, ten $100 bills. A gaping clerk counted them, recounted them, made out a receipt...
...announced early last week that plump and amiable Empress Menen of Ethiopia would speak to Britain and the U. S. over the short-wave radio. Italian spies were not caught napping. No sooner did Her Majesty begin in halting French, than on the same wave length blasts of Morse code gibberish drowned out her words. What she was saying in Addis Ababa...
...Angeles. The bank showed a marked gain in children's savings accounts. Last week he was transferred to the more pretentious cream-colored branch at Hollywood and Cahuenga Boulevards. Mrs. Temple, who devotes all her time to Shirley, is dark and taller than her husband. Mr. Temple, short, plump and dimpled, looks more like his daughter. Consequently, he is considered responsible for her genius, receives occasional offers from ladies who feel that with his assistance they could produce a replica. Mr. Temple declines such invitations. He spends his time investing his daughter's earnings in sound securities...
Behind scenes congratulations went to genial one-armed Joseph S. Thompson, new president of the San Francisco Musical Association, and to plump go-getting Leonora Wood Armsby, founder of the Hillsborough summer concerts, who this winter has been the San Francisco orchestra's managing director. Last year when there was no regular season because of the lack of public support, the city voted $30,000 to give ten popular-priced concerts (TIME, May 13). But Mrs. Armsby and President Thompson (brother of Author Kathleen Morris), were determined to have an oldtime formal season besides, engaged Monteux and launched...