Word: plumped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...directly responsible for this G. 0. P. campaign was plump, easy-going National Chairman Everett Sanders. A small-bore Indiana politician, he appeared to his colleagues to be completely swamped by the magnitude of his job. Last week in Manhattan he beamed serious good cheer. "The campaign," he insisted, "is going along very well. We are in splendid condition. The country is Republican by several million votes. We have a good Republican President. . . . The tour of Governor Roosevelt through the West has tremendously helped the Republican party...
Last week big, plump Publisher Lee Ellmaker walked into the barnlike plant of Woman's World on Chicago's West Side, went upstairs, signed a paper. When he walked out of the building he owned Woman's World, presses, name and building lease...
Silk-robed mandarins with ornate shoes turned up at the toes hailed the bland, plump youth as Emperor of Annam, the "Absolute Master and Father and Mother." In the mountain of royal baggage, unseen by Annamites, were 7,000 phonograph records, a French-English-Italian library, ten ping-pong sets and a hundred dozen ping-pong balls. Not for nothing has 19-year-old Emperor Bao Dai spent half his life in Paris, coached by Frenchmen to rule Annam as France directs. On his return to Hue the perfectly drilled Emperor replied in rapid, flawless French to greetings voiced...
...also a Swedish trip. But did Edward of Wales go to Sweden looking for a bride? Swedish newspapers persisted in mentioning honey-haired Princess Ingrid, plump, Protestant...
...four-time box-sitter meant much more money in the end to Funnyman Wynn than anyone else in the house. For by keeping his ears open, he decided that Ed Wynn was comical even if people could only hear his lisping voice and silly laugh, could not see his plump figure, his idiotic smile, his fluttering fingers and perpetually rolling eyes, his ridiculous costumes. Because the box-sitter was George W. Vos, chief advertising man in The Texas Co., Ed Wynn received his present position as Texaco Fire Chief, broadcasting every Tuesday night over NBC at $5,000 a performance...