Word: plumped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...most conservative theological seminary, at Princeton. Thereupon they abandoned Princeton, founded a seminary of their own which they called Westminster, after the great Confession of their faith. When the smoke of theological battle lifted and public interest had shifted to other quarters, there emerged a new Fundamentalist leader. Plump-cheeked Dr. John Gresham Machen, born 52 years ago in Baltimore, was not another Bryan but he was a peppery, name-calling fighter. Dr. Machen caused the late Dr. Henry Van Dyke to relinquish his pew in Princeton's First Presbyterian Church because, said he, Dr. Machen preached "a dismal...
Between hotel rooms and War Department shuttled the General's plump aide, Capt. Thomas J. Davis, carrying a bulky dispatch case. Seven times in four hours he puffed back & forth. With each round trip one of General MacArthur's seven charges was wiped from the complaint. Then final terms were secretly signed...
Chairman Nye, as usual, proved a heavy-handed cross-examiner and got little information without aid from the Committee's investigator, Stephen Raushenbush. Little more effective was plump Senator Bennett Champ Clark, who got everybody's dander up by expressing extraneous personal opinions, by taking the attitude that all the witnesses were trying to put something over on the Committee. Best of the Senatorial inquisitors was Michigan's Senator Vandenberg. Yet with all the dramatic material offered by a munitions inquiry, the best dirt the Committee could...
Leading lady is witty, torch-singing Ethel Merman, whose face is as plump as her voice is sharp. Anything Goes further boasts the services of debonair William Gaxton and wistful Victor Moore, respectively President Wintergreen and Vice President Throttlebottom of Of Thee I Sing. Funny as Victor Moore was as Throttlebottom, he is funnier still as "Moonface" Mooney, Public Enemy No. 13. Disguised as a parson, he is forced to flee the country on an ocean liner, soon attaches himself to Billy Crocker (Gaxton), a playboy following a long-lost sweetheart, and Reno Sweeney (Merman), an evangelist turned night club...
...stepfather helped him through University of Montana, from which he emerged a zoologist. The War shunted him into chemistry. Later he took his Ph. D. at University of California, studied in Copenhagen under Nobel Laureate Niels Bohr. He is married, has two daughters. He is a neat, square, plump-faced man who likes to extemporize on the piano, make charcoal sketches. Once he smoked two packages of cigarets per day. Now he chews gum instead...