Word: plumped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...born this daughter Alva. Not every young lady from Alabama went to school in France. And not every U. S. schoolgirl in France met William Kissam Vanderbilt. But somehow, strong-chinned Alva Smith did. What was more she married Vanderbilt in Manhattan when she was 21. From then on, plump, ambitious, fabulously energetic Alva Vanderbilt was to find that her successive environments were always just a little too confining. The ever-present temptation was to burst out of them as she would an over-snug bodice...
...broadcast by "Ozzie" Nelson's band at the Hotel New Yorker in Manhattan, heard the announcer say one midnight: "The next number will be 'Reefer Man,' * at the request of one of our distinguished guests, Senator Huey Long." The Senator's companion that evening: plump, dimple-kneed little Dancer Ann Pennington...
There is a foreword by plump Dr. William Schroeder Jr., chairman of the sanitary commission and sponsor of D S. The engineer in charge of sewage disposal writes learnedly of progress on the unfinished new disposal plant. There is a detailed resume of the work of removing last December's snow, which cost the City "approximately $1,367,251.55." Auditor Harry R. Langdon quotes excerpts from musty official records of the appointment of a public scavenger of 1701 at $40 a year. Two pages are devoted to the department's Holy Name Society, two more to routine department...
...adolescent tortures lack credibility. The best the play can do is to show a score of submissive young girls marching under the iron eye of limping Headmistress von Nordeck; to state that their food and heat are to be curtailed (although the young ladies on the stage seem plump and warm enough); to picture them tucked into a dormitory full of little white beds which would have very little terror for U. S. boarding school girls...
...average newspaper office is an unfortunate environment for one who is upset by hearing profanity. Presumably the staff of the well-mannered New York Times is purer of speech than the staffs of lustier papers; but the Times's religious editor, a plump, twittery, fiftyish lady named Rachel K. McDowell, has harbored a phobia against swearing since childhood. Lately Times newsmen found in their mailboxes small white slips printed as follows...