Word: plumped
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...Tide. Last week plump Admiral Helfrich was not at sea, but in the United Nations' well-guarded, teeming headquarters in interior Java. Under him, in the top sea command, was a U.S. naval officer whom Admiral Helfrich and all the Dutch had learned to admire: 55-year-old Vice Admiral William A. Glassford Jr. Admiral Glassford needed more cruisers, more destroyers, more submarines for the sea defense of Java. Admiral Helfrich needed men & munitions, but especially aircraft and airmen. Designed originally for defense from sea assault, Surabaya had already felt bombs from the air, expected land assaults from...
...apparently the Japs had not yet found a really effective Filipino quisling. They announced the creation of a puppet Cabinet, with President Quezon's old aide, plump, moon-faced Jorge B. Vargas as "Chief Administrator." But U.S. Filipinos took Tokyo's announcement with a handful of salt, still had faith in Quezon's Vargas...
...that "draconic measures would be taken against rabble-rousers." Having protested against "the horrors of war" in already embattled Egypt, in the next breath, he promised the British strict adherence to the 1936 Anglo-Egyptian Pact (making Egypt and Britain wartime allies) which Nahas Pasha, accompanied by the wealthy, plump young bride he married late in life, signed personally in London. This done, he called an election, remembering that in 1937, Farouk's electioneers had slugged and cheated him out of office...
...operas go, Carmen, credible in story and neat in tunesmithing, is nearly perfect. But plump divas and paunchy tenors have often flawed it. Last week Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera produced a new gypsy heroine, a slim, long-legged, flaunting quean. The Met's new Carmen, a recruit from the Brussels and Paris operas named Lily Djanel (pronounced John L.), was a bit wobbly in voice, especially in early moments of apparent stage fright. But she proved a plausible charmer, raised many a hair when she read death for herself in the cards...
...most unknown singers the chance never comes in a lifetime. But it came to short, plump-cheeked, 23-year-old Astrid Varnay-the chance to stride the stage of the Metropolitan Opera in a big part. Soprano Lotte Lehmann fell ill, Soprano Varnay donned the blond wig and nightie of Sieglinde in Wagner's Die Walküre. Though she had never appeared on any stage, she sang that hapless housewife's role with such easy assurance that critics all but ho-yo-to-hoed...