Word: plumpings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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According to the most coherent (or least sensational) report, Tito's mystery began in the village of Kmrovec, Klanjec county, on the border of Slovenia and Croatia. Klanjec is situated in a region famed chiefly for plump wheat, fat geese, burgeoning plum trees (essential to the manufacture of rakija, Tito's favorite drink), and a sprinkling of minor middle-class watering places (where, presumably, Tito got his first glimpse of the class enemy...
Britt, Iowa, hung its bunting out again last week; the hoboes were coming to town. They cannonballed from east & west, bedded down in the town park, the jungle under the railroad water tank, in freight cars. Scholarly Roger Payne, 72, and plump Polly Pep were exceptions. Payne slept in the school doorway; Polly, the only woman delegate to the bindle stiffs' first postwar convention, picked a haystack...
...Says plump, bespectacled Mrs. Shuttle, wife of Cerne Abbas' stationer: "He's a real nice gentleman." She describes how Lord Digby stands behind the van bellowing cheerfully: "What do you want this morning, Mrs. Shuttle?" Mrs. Shuttle gives her order and hands over her shopping basket: "Then, like as not, he'll say, 'Now don't you worry, Mrs. Shuttle, I'll take it for you,' and he marches through the shop into the kitchen with the goods. Now there ain't many people who'd do that for you, lord...
...wife of the sponsor's president, Camille Dreyfus of Celanese Corp. of America), had a frightening moment in a friend's car. The door swung open and the singer, riding with the friend's 18-month-old son on her lap, landed in the street. Plump Soprano Tennyson got a bunged-up face; the baby landed unharmed...
...with Molotov, he often went out to lunch with correspondents (no other Soviet official could be lured into lunching away from the embassy or the official Hotel Bristol). The newsmen he saw most frequently were those who sought him out. Two of these were the U.P.'s plump Edward Beattie Jr. and the New York Herald Tribune's diplomatic correspondent, Walter Kerr...