Word: plumpings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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John L. Lewis' daughter and secretary, plump Kathryn Lewis, who seldom appears in public, took a long lunch hour off from her job, spent it marching in a picketline before a cafeteria in Washington's National Press Building...
...Stately, Plump Sirs...
...Stately, plump Dr. Gogarty . . ." (TIME, March 4, Books...
...believer in repetition, Sculptor Wheelock keeps on experimenting. His lively, engaging pieces range from a plump, belligerent figure of Fiorello LaGuardia to an abstract, pinafored Little Girl, from a bat-swinging Babe Ruth (Sultan of Swat), all curves and planes, to a shiny, swivel-hipped Black Dancer. "When a man stops adventuring," says practical Warren Wheelock, "he stops being an artist...
Present head of the firm is Solomon's son, plump, jovial Abraham Livingston ("A. L.") Gump, who resembles one of his own Buddhas. He took over in 1906, just before the earthquake. Same year he hired Oriental Expert Daniel Newell, rebuilt the store and its reputation for Oriental art together. Now nearly blind, A. L. is still a shrewd judge of jade by touch. He knows the store so well that he can guide important visitors around and comment on each object, without giving away his handicap...