Word: plumped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...station platform King Carol & Hostess Elisabeth made a handsome couple. "Oh there's Auntie Marie!" shouted Crown Prince Mihai as the Jugoslav royal train chuffed in. Out bounced plump Queen Marie of Jugoslavia, embraced her brother Carol. Out stepped Jugoslavia's dentist-like King Alexander dressed as a Rumanian commander of artillery. Carol, dressed as a Jugoslav infantry officer, kissed Alexander while a Rumanian brass band blared the amazing three-ply national anthem of the Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats & Slovenes, officially called "Jugoslavia...
Another Whitney formally took to horse racing when plump Joan Whitney Payson registered her colors (pink-&-black) with the American Jockey Club. Other Whitney stable owners: her mother, Mrs. Payne Whitney (pink-&-black); her sister-in-law, Mrs. John Hay ("Jock") Whitney (fuchsia-&-purple); her cousin Cornelius Vanderbilt ("Sonny") Whitney (blue-&-brown) with whom Mrs. Payson's large, handsome husband Charles rowed for Yale...
...plump little donkey named Juanita kicked up a mighty rumpus in New England last week, brought pain and embarrassment to the American Red Cross. In the January Junior Red Cross News, monthly journal for children, was a story about a 10-year-old Spaniard named Rafael and a donkey he found abandoned at the foot of a cliff. Uncle Bastiano and Aunt Ana did not care for their nephew's asinine Juanita. On St. Anthony's Eve, Rafael begged a peseta on the road, set out to have Juanita bedecked and blessed next day in front...
...good part of each year he spends in France, either in his Paris house or at Pau where he is Master of Fox Hounds. After the death of Cleveland's Myron Timothy Herrick, Frederick Henry Prince was mentioned for Ambassador to France but New Jersey's plump, influential Senator Edge beat him to it. Other interests of Businessman Prince are his big America's Cup yacht Weetamoe and the swank Myopia Country Club which he and his friends founded, taking the name from the fact that most of them were nearsighted...
...capacity the gay young man saw and met Lenin for the first time and the following quotation is his vivid impression of the Red leader: "There was nothing in his personal appearance to suggest even faintly a resemblance to the super-man. Short of stature, rather plump, with a short, thick neck, broad shoulders, round, red face, high intellectual forehead, nose slightly turned up, brownish moustache, and short, stubby beard, he looked more at first glance like a provincial grocer than a leader of men." Later when the Agent knew Lenin better, he was impressed by the man's will...