Word: plumpings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Well known and loved by Los Angeles school children is a plump, towheaded art teacher named Natalie Robinson Cole. Full of zest and zing, Mrs. Cole likes to break teaching rules, encourages her pupils to break learning rules. Los Angelenos are hocked by her methods, surprised at her results. This summer the remarkable creations of her pupils-mostly Mexicans, Chinese and Japanese-were displayed at progressive teachers' workshops in the U. S., at the Honolulu Academy of Arts. Distributed among U. S. teachers this week was a highly readable book, The Arts in the Classroom (John...
...Vancouver, B. C. one day last week, a plump little Belgian lady in her 405 boarded a train bound east across the prairie toward Montreal. She was Anne Françoise Cox, Jimmy's bride of four years, on her way to Britain with Jimmy's ashes. To the wall of her compartment she had clipped Jimmy's picture. Jimmy's big Afghan dog was curled up on the berth...
...Plump Colonel Frank Knox, new U. S. Secretary of the Navy, whose name has appeared in the Chicago Daily News masthead since 1931 as Editor and Publisher, dropped his title and job, appointed a three-man regency* to pinch-hit for him. Ten days later the Republican News in a front-page editorial came out for Willkie...
...Narciso Rich, like Forester's Horatio Hornblower (TIME, May i, 1939), is capable of intelligent reflection; but he is not by nature a man of action. He is, rather, a sort of Leopold Bloom light-ballasted for a more adventurous sailing pace: plump, humane, timorous, uneasily involved in thoughts which set him, in the late Middle Ages, on the borderlands of heresy and of the Renaissance. Without quite understanding why, he has committed himself, in the middle of a tabby life, to sail with Columbus on his third voyage, as guardian of the Spanish King's interests...
...Republic did not "afterwards" plump for the Allies. We have not changed our policy, which has long been to give the Allies all possible American aid. For this purpose we demanded the modification of the Neutrality Law last year...