Word: plumpings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Originator of this modern medicine show is plump, German-born Dr. Bruno Gebhard, onetime curator of the famed Dresden Museum of Hygiene. He produced his first big U.S. hit at New York's World Fair in 1939-40, where his medicine and health show was among the best attended. At the Fair and on the road, his famed "transparent man" gave millions the willies...
...glad Georgia is first in something at last. I'm tired of us always being at the tail end," chortled plump, bouncy Governor Ellis G. Arnall.* A good many U.S. citizens, including Eleanor Roosevelt, had been arguing that if 18 is a soldiering age, it is also a voting age. Bills calling for the change were before 31 state legislatures, introduced in both the national House and Senate this year..But Georgia's Arnall, only 36 himself, made vote-at-18 something of a personal crusade...
Editor William Allen White is no admirer of Ohio's pink-cheeked Governor John W. Bricker ("An honest Harding. Thumbs down!"). Individualist White has never cared for teeming mobs. Now Editor White put both dislikes together. Plump Governor Bricker had finally plumped for internationalism (TIME, July 5). Veteran Internationalist White eyed the swelling crowd of internationalists, was suddenly seized with ochlophobia. In his famed Emporia, Kans. Gazette, Editor White fumed his way through a maze of metaphors toward the nearest exit...
Last week Congress readied the stage. In the Senate, Michigan's Arthur H. Vandenberg, once solidly identified with Republican isolationism, joined with Maine's Republican Wallace H. White Jr. to plump for postwar cooperation. Their resolution avoided specific commitments...
From all accounts, a dentist in Alaska has no time for thumb-twiddling. Young Dr. Maxwell Kennedy of Nome found that the "Eskimos hound me to death" (TIME, Dec. 28). Oral Hygiene last week carried the tale of plump, 60-year-old Dr. William Franklin Good, who, until the Japs came, spent his summers practicing from a sailboat and found customers waiting on the docks from Ketchikan to Kiska...