Word: plumped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with her. Marion travels without the family now. She bought them a house in Kansas City last summer, left them there. She returned to New York, bought herself a La Salle limousine, Bergdorf-Goodman clothes, bobbed her hair, took to roller-skating in Central Park. She used to be plump, phlegmatic, frownish about makeup, proud of being oldfashioned. At 27 she is 15 pounds thinner than at 19. Her looks, too, have improved...
...birthday. Last week the Tsar of the Bulgars took his Italian-born Tsaritsa to Jugoslavia to break a slava cake. Fifty years of Balkan bitterness and two wars were supposed to have been blotted out as Tsar Boris and his svelte Tsaritsa loanna were received by King Alexander and plump Queen Marie of Jugoslavia, sister of Rumanian King Carol. After four days of gaudy Balkan pageantry, the four sovereigns saw priests break crosswise into four chunks a holy slava cake (plain white flour and yeast) in King Alexander's incense-filled Court Chapel. Digging a hole in each chunk...
Nobody loves a mercenary who loses. That lesson was brought home to plump General Hans Kundt of Germany and Bolivia last week. Fresh from Prussian drill fields, he whipped the dazed Indian conscripts of Bolivia into the semblance of a modern fighting machine, commanded them in the Chaco War against Paraguay...
Green at his job of Finance Minister is plump, owlish Dr. H. H. Kung. Last week he buckled to the task of trying to balance China's budget with a sternness remindful of his great ancestor, China's uncompromising sage Confucius...
Another chorus of quick-legged, milk-chocolate girls swing and stomp, shove and pull. A long succession of skits plays with the facts of life with the unsophistication of a barnyard. The king of tap-dancers, stocky little Bill Robinson, slaps his soles against the floor with classic virtuosity. Plump Edith Wilson, scrawny Kathryn Perry sing ably, gaily. The stage crawls with conventional Negro comedians, making fun of Negroes for white entertainment. Eddie Hunter explains to two friends the Eugene O'Neill plot of what he calls the Emperor Bones. It leads into an Emperor Jones jungle bacchanal, feathered...