Word: plumpings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cafes that crowd the sidewalks of East 85th Street, Manhattan, the Little Casino Bar Restaurant at No. 206 was barely noticeable. Men & women came and went with a great air of having nothing to do but listen to the juke box playing soft German tunes. Richard Eichenlaub and his plump wife placidly drew beer, placidly dished out Wiener Schnitzel. One day early this week, Herr Eichenlaub suddenly disappeared...
...Stuart James is a redheaded, green-eyed, hot-tempered, plump debutante from Danville, Va. This week Stuart is 21, and she inherits two newspapers. They are the Danville Bee (evening; circulation 11,891) and Register (morning except Monday circulation 11.343). What is more, she aims to run them herself...
...Plump Mrs. Dena Shelby Diehl, American Mother of 1941, had a chat with plump Mrs. Sara Delano Roosevelt, First U.S. Mother, came out against spanking...
Married. Lieut. Cyril Patrick McCormack, son of plump, honey-voiced Tenor John McCormack; and Patricia Eccles; in Dublin. Tenor McCormack, now 56, emerged from "retirement" to sing two songs...
...left the hill-bordered Charleston (W.Va.) field, headed for Pittsburgh with six passengers, copilot and stewardess aboard. Pilot Russell Wright had lifted his 10-passenger Boeing 2470 no more than 10 feet off the ground when his starboard motor quit cold. He was past the point where he could plump down on the airport; he had to go on. Quickly he feathered the prop on the dead engine, thus killed its racking rotation, ruinous drag. Co-pilot William Riley snapped up the landing gear. Ahead was the valley of the Kanawha River where the old but still snappy Boeing would...