Word: plumped
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Told to increase her weight by at least 40 Ib. before she plays plump Queen Victoria in Manhattan this winter, Helen, Hayes ate her first birthday cake in 15 years, proudly announced that she already weighs 103 lb., said. 'I want to be luscious-luscious...
Vasya's wife Ludmilla (Beatrice De Neergaard) is a plump, "undeveloped" peasant who cannot join the Party because she insists on retaining such "bourgeois knickknacks" as a canary, sofa pillows, curtains, rubber plants. She also has "medieval notions" about making men comfortable. Abram's wife Tonya (Fraye Gilbert), on the other hand, catechizes her husband on "ideology," hounds him with a book when he is hungry. The couples inevitably end by quarreling with their mates, longing for a rearrangement. When the poet learns what has happened to his collective paradise, he mutters bitterly, "Sabotage!" The rearrangement is effected...
...rakes and stones, tore Crempa out of the hands of the deputy sheriffs. Crempa sat alertly at a second-floor window of his neat, brown-shingled house, watching the approaches and doing home piecework for another tailor. His son took a job in a riding academy. Crempa's plump, brisk Wife Sophie and his pretty 19-year-old Daughter Carmelia tended a six-acre truck farm behind the house, sold the produce to passing motorists. Now & then Crempa from his window nourished a gun at brash deputy sheriffs. Scotch Plains looked on Crempa as a hero, the impotent sheriff...
Fearing air raids on the exposed royal palace, plump Empress Menen, her 14-year-old daughter Princess Tsahai and Prince Makonnen, 11, climbed into a special train and disappeared in the direction of French Somaliland. All that could be learned in Addis Ababa was that they were bound for a secret hideaway near the Danakil Desert...
...archbishops. Notably present were: Most Rev. Amleto Giovanni Cicognani. Apostolic Delegate to the U. S.; Cincinnati's gentle Archbishop McNicholas. Legion of Decency founder; St. Louis' stern-faced Archbishop Glennon; Santa Fe's church-building Archbishop Gerken; Rochester's Bishop Mooney, an archbishop without an archdiocese; St. Paul's plump Archbishop Murray; Milwaukee's scholarly Archbishop Stritch; San Antonio's Archbishop Drossaerts; San Francisco's lately-installed Archbishop Mitty; New Orleans' German-born Archbishop Rummel; Dubuque's tall Archbishop Beckman...