Word: plumpings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...truth about her was not so exciting. When she appeared before two congressional committees last week, she proved to be neither beautiful nor glamorous. She was plump and had a sharp nose and receding chin. She was not blonde; her hair was dark brown. But she was-or had been-a spy. There was no doubt about that. And the torrent of her confession was far more shocking than the fact that she was no Mata Hari...
When Niebel looked out, Daniels politely asked permission to use the telephone. Then he stepped inside, pulled his pistol, snarled: "This is a stickup." While West covered the superintendent, Daniels went upstairs, got Niebel's dumpy wife and his plump, redheaded 22-year-old daughter Phyllis out of bed. The two killers gloated over their frightened victims like vicious children; demanded that Niebel order a guard named "Red" Harris to come to the house...
Luxemburg's plump, commonsensical Premier Pierre Dupong made a sensible remark about the Berlin crisis last week. Said he: "I don't want to find out if the Russians are willing to go to war. I would like to know, but I don't want to find...
...Plump, powdered and behatted, she briskly interrupted Chairman Sam Rayburn's introduction of Barkley, took over the microphone. On behalf of the Allied Florists of Philadelphia, she announced, she wanted to present President Truman with a large Liberty Bell made of flowers. Then, from beneath the bell came a shower of white pigeons (placed there by the florists' pressagent, who had billed them as "doves of peace...
...hats, or chewing at the stems of roses while the blooms hung below their chins ... A dozen of them were lying on the steps of the Quisisana [Hotel] and as we walked past they lifted heavy-lidded eyes to look appreciatively at my wife. Two of them, mounted on plump donkeys, followed us down the street, and we heard one say to his companion, who burdened the air with lusty sighs, 'You in love again...