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Word: plumper (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pace Anita Loos, six out of ten prefer brunettes (a happy choice, since only 8% of U.S. women are natural blondes) and they think- although they are at least half responsible for it-that women get kissed and petted too much before marriage. The average U.S. woman is plumper than she would like to admit-she is 5 ft. 4 in. tall and weighs 132 Ibs. She is more interested in having a good-tempered husband than a faithful one, although she wishes he were more romantic. She believes three children constitute the ideal family, wants no babies until...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Meet the Folks | 9/1/1947 | See Source »

Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt, whose cut-off allowance from daughter Gloria Stokowski last March put their family tiff in headlines, found just the place for her new soaps & lotions business: a Manhattan structure known as Peace House. Partner Maurice Chalom leased part of the building from longtime peace-plumper Mrs. J. Sergeant Cram, who emphasized to the press: "The 'peace' end of the building continues...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Jun. 3, 1946 | 6/3/1946 | See Source »

Jack Benny, tanned and plumper, got back to Manhattan from his ten-week U.S.O. tour of Africa, the Middle East and Italy, where his troupe was the first show to land on the European mainland. Said he: "In Iran, according to the current films, Shirley Temple hasn't been born yet, and Francis X. Bushman has just won the popularity contest." Two days later arrived...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Entertainers | 10/11/1943 | See Source »

Died. Thorvald Stauning, 68, towering, red-bearded Prime Minister of Denmark; in Copenhagen. Flower-loving, neighbor-loving, he was a sentimental plumper of "Greenland for the Eskimos." wrote a best-selling book titled My Trip to Greenland, believed, till too late, in the neighborliness of Denmark's neighbors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, May 11, 1942 | 5/11/1942 | See Source »

...mice in this version are blonde, lithe Carole Landis, and blonder, plumper Betty Grable, cast as leggy cheesecake queens of a Texas highway hot-dog stand, who try to parlay a small legacy into a millionaire husband. Unfortunately, their daily double (Don Ameche) is scratched. He was a millionaire until his family business folded, day before yesterday...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Jul. 21, 1941 | 7/21/1941 | See Source »

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