Word: plumpings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mother (Craig Rice) is not plump, and the fact that you described her as such (TIME, July 29) is going to do a great deal of harm to the family campaign to make her gain 15 pounds...
John Snyder, 50, plump, white-faced and shy with strangers, has been with his friend ever since. Now, a little appalled, he finds himself Secretary of the U.S. Treasury and, according to his careful friends, just "an all-round good fellow...
...cocktail parties tinkling daily in the lakeside chalets (almost all of them are open this year) miss the familiar sight of Prince Rupprecht. The popular dean of Bavarian society has been something of a recluse since the illness of his wife. But handsome Emmy Göring and her plump, delightful daughter Edda have been much in evidence. Emmy planned to keep her life simple this summer, but she has relented sufficiently to give many an intimate, dazzling dinner party for visiting officers...
Hearstpapers illustrated her "thrilling, analytical stories" with Burris Jenkins cartoons and pictures of plump, popeyed Craig Rice looking for clues-i) in the Herald-American morgue, 2) crouched over the washtub where Suzanne Degnan's body was dissected. "I've fought like hell with the American, and I got so mad at Reutlinger that I almost punched him in the puss," said she. "But they're going to go along with me. . . . Heirens didn't do this. Call it woman's intuition. But if he did, then I'll just pack my bags quietly...
...aging showman Henry Cotton, now 39. He rolled up to the Royal & Ancient clubhouse as haughty and pigeon-toed as ever, in a chauffeured Rolls-Royce, dressed in a salmon-pink sweater and blowsy grey trousers. As usual, he did not smile, ignored his opponents, spoke only to his plump, wealthy Argentine wife who followed him around as his official marker. He commanded the largest gallery, and treated the crowd to a three-under-par 70. Then he was whisked back to swank Rosack's Marine Hotel for a massage...