Word: plumped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...issue of TIME (Oct. 16), I read on p. 34 that the Central Association of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, meeting in Mil waukee last week, congratulated Mae West for popularizing plump female figures, called her style "a boon to motherhood." Such inconsistency is positively nauseating. When I was a girl, doctors spent a great deal of time warning young girls of the terrible consequences of wearing corsets and pulling in their waists...
...Chinese bonds tobogganed and alarm grew so general that troops had to be thrown around the home of Generalissimo & Mrs. Chiang and the entire government quarter of Nanking. As Dr. Soong's successor Generalissimo Chiang picked the famed 75th lineal descendant of China's great sage Confucius, plump and placid Dr. H, H. Kung who smokes every day some 15 Havana cigars especially banded "Dr. H. H. Kung...
Visiting in Washington was Alabama's portly ex-Senator James Thomas ("Tom-Tom") Heflin, whose fear and hate of Popery caused him to bolt the Democratic candidacy of Al Smith, plump for Hoover in 1928. To inquiries about his law business in Lafayette. Ala, he replied: "Business is good. I'm at peace with the world." "How about you and the Pope?" he was asked. Senator Heflin grinned broadly, "I'm at peace with the Pope...
...countries neighboring Germany were jangle-nerved last week, but Denmark's hulking pacifist Premier, auburn-bearded, cigar-rolling Thorvald Stauning, was absolutely frantic. Three years ago his Cabinet took the somewhat feminine position that Denmark, if attacked, had better scream for help rather than fight. Announced plump and placid Defense Minister Lauritz Rasmussen...
...poring over it a sandy-haired twelve-year-old with a great name. The youngster was Vassily ("Vasya") Iosifovich Stalin, in a neat blue double-breasted jacket and a red tie. Close-cropped fair hair, pale face and lively eyes marked Vasya for the son of his late blonde, plump mother rather than of his father, Russia's blue-black-haired Steel...