Word: plumped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...General Brown in Washington was announcing that he would no longer "invite nor follow suggestions" from Congressman McFadden on local patronage, Mrs. Pinchot, whose Milford home is in the rural 15th, was announcing that she would attempt to wrest the McFadden seat in the House away from its present plump occupant. In the April primaries she would be a candidate for the Republican Congressional nomination. Long ambitious to sit in the House, she unhesitatingly seized the McFadden outburst as a springboard for her campaign. Said she: "Every one must resent an unsubstantiated accusation of treason against the President." No idle...
Battling against this first report, plump German Delegate Dr. Carl Melchior was backed by "The Three Little Neutrals": Switzerland's Dr. Brindschedla, Holland's Mynheer Colijin, Sweden's Herr Rydbeck. They deadlocked the Committee which found itself obliged to draft and lay before the world a second and quite different report with these conclusions...
...Ways & Means Committee of the House to make their best pleas. First to enter the ornate marble committeeroom was Ogden Livingston Mills, Undersecretary of the Treasury on whom the President leaned heavily during those troublous June days before France was jockeyed into line for the Moratorium. He told plump, mild-eyed Democratic Chairman James Collier and his 24 committee colleagues that Congress would be "everlastingly disgraced" if it failed to approve the agreement...
...witness stand. She seldom heard her own name (Charlotte Fixel) or the name she had chosen when she was a chorus girl (Charlotte Leslie) mentioned by either counsel. Mr. Kresel called her "the contestant"; Mr. Steuer, pointing, described her as "the lady at the end of the table." Plump, smiling, dressed in the slightly garish style of a typical upper-west side hausfrau, Charlotte Fixel waited for the court to decide whether she was entitled to demand one-half of an estate which she estimated at $75,000,000 or whether she would emerge, after her years of slightly dubious...
...cubism. Back in Mexico City he was the leading figure in a group of quasi-Communist artists who have become the leaders in the Mexican renaissance: Jose Clemente Orozco, Jean Chariot. Carlos Merida, Pachecho. They worked for a flat rate of $4 (eight pesos) a day and hired a plump little boy to bring them water and wash their brushes. The water boy was Miguel Covarrubias. now famed smartchart caricaturist...