Word: plumped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Like Roosevelt, Dr. Bevan wears pincenez which (unlike Roosevelt) he removes when he starts to talk. He is tall and plump, has a way of leaning toward a listener as though he were about to impart a great confidence...
...company which gives opera every night needs several leading tenors. Tenor Gigli inherited many of his best roles from the late great Enrico Caruso. To succeed Gigli Mr. Gatti has chosen Tenor Tito Schipa, another short, plump Italian, lately of the Chicago Civic Opera.* Also from Chicago will come Frida Leider, great Wagnerian Soprano long coveted by the Metropolitan. Tenor Gustaaf de Loor and Basso-Baritone Ludwig Hofmann will strengthen the German wing. Four new Americans are on the list: Tenor Richard Crooks, Soprano Helen Gleason. Contralto Rose Bampton, Baritone Richard Bonelli. Three operas will be added to the repertoire...
...State dining room plump Mrs. Clayton Douglass Buck was on the President's right because her husky husband runs Delaware, first State to ratify the Constitution. On the President's left in golden spangles, gold shoes and jade earrings was sharp, smart, colorful Mrs. Gifford Pinchot who had just been defeated for Congress in Pennsylvania (see p. 15). On leaving the White House, Governor Roosevelt, always jovial with the Press, when asked what he had discussed with President Hoover, said: "One may not talk when leaving the White House. I've been there before." Governor Pinchot...
...primitive art chosen by John Sloan. There she listened attentively while fluttering Mrs. Garrett delivered a lecture on the differences between the Hopis of Arizona and the Zunis of New Mexico, the relative merits of such artists as Ma-Pe-We, Awa Tsireh, Oqua Pi, and that talented squaw, plump Quah Ah, otherwise known in Santa Fe as Tonita Pena...
...Madeline of the white skin, Sebastien of the shadowy mustache loved each other, planned to be married. That was before the War. The War forced first the old men, then the women to work the fields, drive wavering plough-furrows through the hard earth. Madeline's white skin and plump cheeks turn weather-brown, her muscles harden. She is admired as the finest woman in the whole village. Sebastien, on harvest-leave, admires her too. But when a man admires a woman, he no longer wants her. This is but one of the tragedies that mutilate the lives of peasant...