Word: plumped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Vice President. An early arrival in the city was Mrs. Edward Everett ("Dolly") Gann, looking slightly less plump than usual. As to her brother Charles Curtis' chances of being renominated for the Vice Presidency, she "had not a single doubt." Neither had Secretary of the Treasury Mills, a delegate from New York, who appeared on the scene with the word of the White House on his lips. But ruddy little Chief Counsel James Francis Burke of the national committee, who claimed seniority over anyone at the gathering because he went to the 1892 Minneapolis convention the week after...
Distinctly tabbyish is Edouard Herriot, plump and wavy-haired Mayor of Lyons! whose so-called Radical-Socialist Party won the French Chamber of Deputies election (TIME, May 16). Not the least bit radical. M. Herriot's party decided in caucus last week not to join forces with the mild French Socialists whose support is needed to cement a strong Herriot Cabinet majority. Taking a chance that the Socialists would not seriously oppose him, M. Herriot called by arrangement on new French President Albert Lebrun, was asked to form a Cabinet and produced, 15 hours later, the following safe & sane slate...
...accountant. It had been used by the Mayor as a repository for papers relating to one law case. To him Fugitive Sherwood was simply an unpaid secretary who took money (between $800 and $1,000 a month) to Mayor Walker's widowed sister, paid the expenses of plump Mrs. Walker's yacht (the Mary W.), tended financial odd jobs...
...Plump Queen Wilhelmina beamed, so did the plump Prince Consort. Comfortable Princess Juliana went out to inspect the new villages near Wieringen and thousands of Dutch trippers on hundreds of excursion boats yelled themselves hoarse. But at Volendam and Marken, those overexploited bits of quaintness, fishing boats were tied in glum rows to the quays, their painted sideboards hauled out of the water, their flags at half-mast. Fisher folk clumped gloomily over the cobblestones in wooden shoes...
...abed last week lay plump and matronly Widow Alice Foote MacDougall who, at 65, owns eight restaurants (seven in Manhattan, one in Rye, N. Y.), sells her teas, coffees, cocoas, jellies, relishes, pickles and preserves in some 300 stores. Two months ago she made plans to offer stock in her enterprise, to expand (TIME, March 7). Apparently little stock was sold for last week Mrs. MacDougall heard that "friendly" receiverships had been granted for four of the affiliated restaurant companies of Alice Foote MacDougall, Inc., her holding company. Blamed in the petition were the Depression and "a change...