Word: plumped
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...Capital is still where a plump forefinger placed it; and last week His Majesty's Governor General, Viscount Willingdon, fittingly upheld there the dignity of the Crown by presiding over a series of Diamond Jubilee ceremonies lasting, on the principal day, from before noon until after midnight. Most impressive was the maiden ringing of a huge, sweetly toned new carillon from the Tower of the Canadian Parliament. As the bells pealed, their reverberations spread throughout the Dominion upon a network of repeatedly amplified radio waves...
...this "defamation" he was sentenced, 18 months ago, to serve five months in jail. As the hour of 1 p. m. approached last week, tout Paris kept an eager ear for news that policemen had swarmed over sandbags and barbed wire, rushed the "Camelots" and dragged a plump, irate editor to jail. Instead it was a group of Communists who first molested the Royalist premises...
Still it was obvious that something had to be done. The law courts could not be flouted. The blind goddess insisted upon seeing her order carried out. True, M. Daudet is a plump, spacious, jolly old defamer, but really, said the police, something must be done. It was decided to invite M. Daudet to jail. He was so informed two years ago, but the R. S. P. V. on the card brought forth from M. Daudet a polite regret. He, no doubt, "regretted that he was unable to accept Monsieur Le Prefect's kind invitation", and perhaps even hinted...
...crime of plump, complacent, witty, dynamic Editor Leon Daudet is "defaming the police." He has defamed almost every high official in France at one time or another in L'Action Francaise, to the huge delight of Parisians; but "defaming the police" serves to cover the merry multitude of his bright sins. No one really wants to bright put such a booming, spacious fellow as M. Daudet in jail; but appearances must be preserved, and he has already had two years of grace...
...Sixty plump matrons of Pastor M. B. Lord's Kensington Methodist Church at Berlin, Conn., measured out the substantial token of their esteem for him." (TIME...