Word: plumper
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Perhaps prophetically, the stamp ducks look a little plumper than the ones which "Ding" used to put in his conservation-propagandizing cartoons. He hopes the proceeds from the stamp sale will help fatten all the wild ducks in the land. Said he last week: "No one is under any obligation to kill a duck just because he owns a Federal hunting stamp, nor is there any rule to prevent a man who wants to help restore the migratory waterfowl from purchasing several of these duck-saving stamps. Every dollar will be devoted to the cause of conservation...
...accompanied the British Wightman Cup team as coach and chaperon. Mrs. Eileen Bennett Whittingstall, once the best woman tennis player in England, was still the prettiest. Dorothy Round and little Phyllis Mudford, whom no British player beat last year, had never played in the U. S. before. Betty Nuthall, plumper and more jolly than ever, was the team's No. i. They arrived in the U. S. three weeks ago, last week at Forest Hills lost the Wightman Cup to a U. S. team five matches...
...stood last week like a double row of sentinels guarding the Red Court. The vast oblong hall was draped and festooned in Red. At a Red desk on the right of the Supreme Court Bench sat Nikolai Vassilievitch Krylenko. dreaded prosecutor, famed for his sneer. He seemed a bit plumper but no less tense and tigerish than at the famed Schakhta Trial two years ago when he sent five counter-revolutionaries to Death (TIME. July...