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Word: plumped (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Tall, tired Ramsay MacDonald finished his bitter campaign last week with four final days in his own Seaham constituency. His opponent was a plump 47-year-old schoolmaster, William Coxon, who until last month was Scot MacDonald's campaign manager. It was hard going. Everywhere along the line he was faced by snarling, short-tempered crowds. At Shotton he faced a booing crowd of miners...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: In Seaham | 11/2/1931 | See Source »

Last week the Exchange's official voice, which nowadays comes out of the mouth of tall, plump, slick-black-haired President Richard Whitney, was heard in formal defense of that Exchange practice which has fired hottest current criticism: Short Selling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: For the Defense | 10/26/1931 | See Source »

...Angeles evangelist, and her husband Brother David L. Hutton, 30, 25O-lb. dimpled tenor, paused in Manhattan on their way to Boston to conduct a nine-day revival. Sister Aimee was svelte and blonde; on her last visit, newsmen recalled, she was plump and redhaired. Of her husband she said: "The first time I heard David sing was four months ago. He was singing 'Nay, I Will Not Let You Go,' and as I listened I felt myself blush to the roots of my hair. . . ." In Boston Mayor James M. Curley pointed out that Texas Guinan had promised...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Oct. 19, 1931 | 10/19/1931 | See Source »

...tries to flee the house. In desperation Mr. Marble wheedles him into taking a farewell glass of whiskey. Mr. Marble is an amateur photographer and into the whiskey he pours some of the cyanide of potassium which he uses for developing. From that moment doom slowly continues to embrace plump, puffy Mr. Marble...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Oct. 12, 1931 | 10/12/1931 | See Source »

...sitting, eats twice as many grapefruit, breakfasts on cornflakes which he prefers to pulverize by wrapping them up in a bath-towel and pounding the towel on the floor. Friendly, sociable, he likes to frighten the patrons of cabarets with his ferocious grin. For dancing companions, he prefers smallish, plump girls to one of whom (Emelia Tersini) his engagement was rumored and denied during the last year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Misfortunes of a Monster | 10/5/1931 | See Source »

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