Word: plumped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...take the little dog for a walk." seizes the leash of Skene, the other Lindbergh Scottie, marches it proudly around the estate. Into the new beauty parlor she was opening on Manhattan's Fifth Avenue Hocked the friends of Mrs. Howard Chandler Christy* for a housewarming. Tall, plump, blonde, Proprietress Christy was the famed illustrator's chief model for eight years before she became his second wife. Rumania's King Carol noticed Crown Prince Michael, 11 lording it over the public-school boys who share his work & play in the palace. Said King Carol: "There...
Poet MacLeish has a low opinion of the U. S. artist ("the plump Mr. Pl'f) who decries the U. S., who prefers Cypresses mentioned in Horace or Henry James: He prefers a country where everything carries the name of a Countess or real king or an actual palace or Something in Prose and the stock prices all in Italian...
...public. On view were its star performers. Dr. John Heiss, elected president, is a business-like pastor of a Spiritualist church in Jamaica, L. I., publisher of small Long Island newspapers. He announced formation of an education bureau to train Spiritualist missionaries. Rev. Charles J. Morrow of Buffalo, plump and bald, is a "clairaudion." He hears voices in his left ear. In 1931 Spiritualist Morrow predicted that Mussolini would die. Last week Spiritualist Morrow fished questions out of a basket, told several women they were to go on trips...
Because he was so imprudent as to fill his slack old stomach with a few dates soaked in water, St. Gandhi lay on a couch last week speechless from stomach ache at the wedding of his plump son Devadas to Miss Luxmi Raja Gopal Achariar, daughter of a Nationalist Congress leader...
...Manhattan's Cathedral of St. John the Divine one day last week, plump-cheeked little Dean Milo Hudson Gates read from Acts, XVII. Lean little Bishop William T. Manning stood in red vestments by his side. Dean Gates read from the words of another little man, but a great one: bald, homely St. Paul who stood on a rock on Mars Hill in Athens and cried...