Word: plumpings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...months the Most Rev. Francis Joseph Spellman, plump-faced, quick-smiling, and broadminded, has been Archbishop of 1,000,000 Roman Catholics in & around New York City. But not until last week did he attain the fullness of his ecclesiastical powers. Then a great throng of priests, bishops and Catholic laymen filled St. Patrick's Cathedral. Burly Denis Cardinal Dougherty of Philadelphia-substituting for Archbishop Spellman's onetime superior, ailing William Cardinal O'Connell of Boston-placed around the Archbishop's shoulders a narrow woolen band embroidered with crosses. It was a pallium, symbol...
Married. Film Comedian Oliver Hardy, 48, plump half of Laurel & Hardy; and Virginia Lucille Jones, 26, studio script girl; he for the second time; in Las Vegas...
...lost 43 districts in 1938 by less than 3%. The 7% in Ohio's 17th looked as lovely as the first daffodil to Massachusetts' wily Representative Joe Martin, G. O. P. pilot in the House. A shift of 47 seats would place Mr. Martin's plump little frame under the great crystal chandelier† that hangs in the Speaker's office...
Buried somewhere on the plump green slopes of Cocos Island are pieces of eight and gold moidores; somewhere off the ancient stone paths is a cache of jewel-studded, solid gold chalices, golden altars, diamond-crusted vestments, 273 jeweled swords, a life-size statue of the Blessed Virgin, wonderfully wrought in purest gold...
...Stately, plump Dr. Gogarty landed in the U. S. last autumn with his pockets full of Queen's Court cheroots and an unfinished manuscript in his luggage. Completed in the pauses of a strenuous lecture tour and now put forth as something resembling a novel, Going Native exhibits Dr. Gogarty's prose in a lively state of decay. It concerns the adventures of a Casanovian Irishman, Gideon Ouseley, among the English. About it hangs an odd flavor of the old Evelyn Waugh, not least in the dedication "to Alfred and Patricia Flesh of Piqua." It begins with...