Word: plumper
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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...
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...
...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...
...Bakersfield, Calif., Teacher Hildegarde Case set out to prove to her pupils that plain foods are best, even for rats. To one rat she fed milk, whole wheat grains; to another, soda pop, salt pork, coffee. The first rat grew plump and healthy; the second even plumper. Suspecting a jokester, Teacher Case hid one night to waylay him. No one appeared, but in the morning she found eight baby rats in their soda-popped, pork-fed mother's cage...
...rushed from the stage, fell in a dead faint. From a stage box stepped the Viennese soprano, Hilde Konetzni, due to make her London debut the next night. Dressmakers hastily pinned up Diva Lehmann's costumes to fit Hilde Konetzni's shorter, plumper figure. Whereupon Pinch-Hitter Konetzni carried on where Diva Lehmann left off, was roundly cheered at the opera's close. One man asked for his money back...