Word: plumped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Plump, busy Mrs. Reid hurried to Paris where she inspected the new plant of the Paris Herald, European adjunct of her New York Herald Tribune, over which her son, Ogden, and his talented wife, Helen, now preside. Her cold was no better. After looking over the preparations of her new Paris town house and satisfying herself that all went well at Reid Hall-residence for U. S. female students-she took a train for Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat on the Riviera. There, at her daughter Lady Ward's Villa Rosemary, the cold grew worse. Bronchial complications...
...Washington last week, one Edith Wallack, plump, easy-going housewife of 26, packed her husband off to work, her two children off to school, then sat down to glance through a New York newspaper before starting on the breakfast dishes. In the paper that day there was printed a unique notice: Wanted, a soprano to sing Ai'da. . . . Margaret Matzenauer, famed contralto, had been engaged to sing the role of Amneris (Egyptian princess) with an otherwise obscure troupe in Manhattan's gaudy Mecca Temple on May 9. But to get itself a soprano for the slave girl...
...under the energetic presidency of Maryland's plump Mrs. Jesse W. Nicholson. She flayed all Wet Democratic presidential possibilities, warned everyone within earshot that her women would bolt their party as they did in 1928 if a Dry were not nominated. Of New York's Governor Roosevelt she said: "This candidate, while mentally qualified for the presidency, is utterly unfit physically.* He has failed to show the kind of leadership we want in our President by his vacillation and dilatory tactics. . . . Let us not be trapped or betrayed by any such high-sounding phrases as States' rights...
...Melo flags and falters. There is a tableau vivant around the dead woman's grave, followed by a long-winded scene at the violinist's home where the husband tries to get Mr. Rathbone to admit his philandering. Melo ends on an unclear and noncommittal note, possibly because plump, engaging Actress Best is killed off one act too soon...
...prominent member of the Hoover cabinet recently asked a representative of Siam, "How far is it from the coast?" But Siam is not in fact an island, quite the reverse. Shaped like a plump spider, Siam squats between French Indo-China and British Burma on the mainland of Asia, faces the Gulf of Siam, darts a narrow tongue of Siamese territory 600 miles down the Malay Peninsula. Population: 11,506,200. Area: more than four times that of the State of New York...