Word: plumped
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Looking on and loving it were: plump, pleasant Archbishop Francis Joseph Spellman of New York; bland, swart Archbishop Amleto Giovanni Cicognani, Pius XII's Apostolic Delegate to the U. S. They were glad to see priests adept at quick comebacks. Said Delegate Cicognani: "The apostles preached in this way. . . . It was in the streets that Our Lord met those who were in bad need...
...stage, blonde, hollow-cheeked Dancer Tatiana Riabouchinska, in the blazing gold costume of the cock in Coq d'Or, soared in the grand jete, the ballet's classic leap. On other nights, when the stage was ranked with silk tights and tutus (tarlatan ballet skirts), pretty, plump-cheeked Irina Baronova and dark, lissome Tamara Toumanova took the spotlight for effortless spins, whirls, leaps...
...Washington one day last week, a group of newsmen shuffled into an imposing fifth-floor conference room at the Department of the Interior. One by one, they read copies of a statement by querulous, plump little Secretary Harold LeClair Ickes. Their faces lengthened...
After her station wagon cracked into a car near Redlands, Calif., as she headed for a desert holiday, plump, sixtyish Cinemactress Mary Boland was hospitalized with fractured ribs, dislocated hip, gashed head...
Republican Taft. The plump, crisply bobbed, forthright wife of Ohio's also-ran, Robert A. Taft: "We in America are fortunate to be able to change horses, to change from one that is floundering . . . to one that will carry us safely. . . . We must choose between a centralized government in Washington or a government by the people; between debts and deficits or a future for our children; between evasion of the Constitution or loyal observance to it; between staying out of war or being pushed into...