Word: plumped
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...last a plump, genial old man in a frock coat and a tall hat arrived. He took a pair of gold scissors from a pretty girl and began portentously to cut the ribbon...
...extolling what is unquestionably "the best written feature page in American journalism," the World's famed "opp.ed." (opposite editorial) page, where Franklin Pierce Adams like a bandar-log and Heywood Broun like St. Simeon Stylites ruminate at the foot and the head, respectively, of their columns; where are also plump Drama Critic Alexander Woollcott, Book Critic Harry Hansen, Music Critic Samuel Chotzinoff...
They were Mennonites, religious farmer-folk, from Canada. There were 81 men, a sturdy lot, many prematurely old, all wearing flowing beards, shovel hats, ecclesiastic long coats. Ninety-five women, plump, strong, wore long, full skirts, bright-colored shawls. There were 38 children. All spoke German, among themselves...
WILLIAM-E. H. Young-Harcourt, Brace ($2). When crises arise, strange discrepancies of outlook are often uncovered among intimates. So finds William Nesbitt when his daughter Lydia frankly exchanges a lawfully wed Oliver for a Henry. Of all the family, only William himself and plump, generous Dora fully sympathize...
Finance Minister Emile Franqui stood stiff, straight, plump and proud, last week, while a deep red grand cordon was adjusted across his breast in the manner of the transverse strap of a Sam Brown Belt. Soon by a gold safety pin there was attached to M. Franqui the highest decoration in the gift of the Belgian Crown-the Order of Leopold. Twinkling it dangled, glittered: a gold edged white enamel cross suspended from a royal crown and resting on a green laurel and oak wreath, at the centre on a black field the golden lion of Belgium, below the motto...