Word: plumpings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lyda Southard smoothed down her green "going-away" dress, patted her plump bust, and cast a last, almost regretful glance at the cretonne curtains and flowered wallpaper. After all, it had been home for a long time, even if it was the women's ward of the Idaho State Penitentiary. She had fixed up the room right pretty...
America is committed to the destruction of Nazidom, to a policy of victory though the heavens fall. With each new move of the Administration, more ground slides out from under the non-interventionist cause. As the country rapidly nears a definite plump on the belligerent side of the fence, the desperate importance of a final triumph becomes clearer and clearer, and gigantic productive and military efforts become a crusade. But neither the beating of war's drums nor the grim, inevitable prospect of years of blood and sacrifice should be allowed to destroy Uncle Sam's sense of proportion...
...collection of primitive music survived a shipwreck and an automobile smashup before it was brought home by a footloose family-bronzed, youngish Bruce and Sheridan Fahnestock, and their plump, jolly mother...
...Glamor Tennist Alice Marble got a $1-a-year job with the Office of Civilian Defense to plump for national female fitness......Mum on her reasons, Lillian Gish abruptly checked out of the America First Committee....Birth Controler Margaret Sanger ascribed new difficulties of the birth-control movement in the U.S. to the existence of a totalitarian plot.....Elinor Glyn, who brought forth "It," came away from an interview with Britain's Minister of State declaring that what Beaverbrook had was "Vril." She said it meant energy......In England a hitchhiking aircraftsman thumbed a car in the country...
...took Damon's production shake-up to reawaken interest in Republic. Its prize plane, the high-flying Thunderbolt (P-47) had already won it a plump Army order (total: $56,500,000, some of which was ticketed for P-43s). But last week not a single Thunderbolt (except the "mock-up") had yet been delivered. Few weeks ago Major General "Hap" Arnold, Air Forces chief, dropped in at the Farmingdale, L.I. plant. He was so impressed by what he saw that the Army more than doubled Republic's backlog (to around...