Word: plumper
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...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...
...plump white-bound pamphlet, called a "White Paper," and a plumper blue-bound pamphlet, called a "Blue Book," were issued last week, respectively by the British Government and the French. Momentous, the pamphlets total 114 pages. They release officially, for the first time, that notorious series of secret Anglo-French communications feverishly rumored to constitute an "agreement," a "pact" or even an "entente" between France and Britain, contrary to the interests of the U. S. and Italy (TIME...
...that went on between them was pure, beautiful and charming. But it was quite different as soon as he thought of somebody else in his place. . . . Where had she learned such kisses?" The increasing sensuality of their relationship wore on the boy, mads him skinny, sunken-eyed. Katya grew plumper, gayer, flattered by his love and the adulation of others. So they decided to separate for a summer. Their parting was youthfully emotional, yet she took it easily, and he found himself almost happy to get away. All summer he mooned about her, seeing her in other girls, in trees...