Word: plumped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Plump, dewlapped Judge Caverly beetled through his spectacles in amazement at the couple, said something secret. Newsman John Origen Herrick and Newswoman Genevieve Forbes dashed happily away, were married on schedule, had three whole days' honeymoon. They were back on the job Sept. 10, just in time to hear Judge Caverly sentence Loeb & Leopold to life imprisonment...
...gates of San Quentin prison appeared plump, watery-eyed Mrs. Tom Mooney, to visit her convict-husband. Occasion: their 23rd wedding anniversary, the 16th they have passed together within San Quentin's walls...
...report his findings on teacher-happiness Researcher Hoppock chose an unhappy time-the 72nd annual convention of National Education Association, in Washington last week. At that meeting N. E. A. members demonstrated that even plump, married, mature teachers can be utterly miserable...
...second place as the three Woodyard brothers of West Virginia marched into New York State. With the help of their good friend Spruille Braden, whose father made his money in Chile copper they raised some $60,000 new capital, acquired control of eight weeklies on Long Island's plump, profitable North Shore, linked them with their 15 county-seat weeklies in West Virginia. The Long Island and West Virginia groups are embodied in separate corporations, but both are managed by the Woodyards Since most of the 11,000 weeklies in the U. S. are independently owned, the Woodyards field...
...signer of the Declaration of Independence, approved of dancing and cigarets. Or at least he did not disapprove of them. In little old Setauket, on Long Island's North Shore, that set up eddies of talk behind green-shuttered windows whenever he walked down the street. Plump, rich Julia Smith, in whose backyard is the grave of an ancestor killed in the Revolution, was especially upset. She was president of the Ladies Aid Society and there the talk boiled up hottest. Gentle, white-haired Rector Livingston heard about it, of course, but he had been a pastor too long...