Word: plumpishly
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...Fort Myer, Va., the Army's Third Cavalry Regiment last week lost its bugler. Plumpish, firm-lipped Staff Sergeant Frank Witchey, 46 (The Army reckons him 48 because he lied about his age when he enlisted 30 years ago), doffed his uniform, retired. With his retirement, history turned a page. He sounded taps for the Unknown Soldier, for many an -Army brass hat, for Woodrow Wilson, William Jennings Bryan, Leonard Wood, William Howard Taft...
Checkers (Twentieth Century-Fox). Ever since brattish Jane Withers muscled in on dimpled Shirley Temple's territory in Bright Eyes three years ago hollering for a gat, she has continued to rise in the affections of the U. S. public. She now stands sixth in box-office popularity. Plumpish, 11-year-old Jane, mixed up with a race-track crowd, repairs a shaky romance, helps nurse an injured race horse back to health, paces him to a neck-and-neck Derby finish...
...Tovarich), owl-eyed Brooks Atkinson of New York Times chuckled, applauded, said: "Tovarich is the season's first hit." On same day, scholarly, professorial looking John Mason Brown of the Post said: "Tovarich is the first smash hit of the season." Richard Watts, Jr., blue-shirted, plumpish pundit of Herald Tribune called Tovarich "the first resounding dramatic smash of the season." Equally in accord were other critics...
When Father Thomay arrived in Chicago last summer, his parishioners took turns hoarding him, gathered for Sunday worship in a North Side parochial school. Currently the plumpish, bespectacled priest lives at a Catholic hospital, celebrates mass in its chapel, depends for clothing and pocket money on the $2 or $3 his Chaldeans give in weekly collections. Not at all daunted, Father Thomay recently took an option on a site for a church, was busy last week with plans for a Byzantine structure to be called St. Ephrem's. Toward its cost, a series of lectures by Father Thomay...
...well-dressed plumpish man, who bore a striking resemblance to France's late, great King Louis XVI, was a determined auction bidder in Paris last week for a dull, tarnished guillotine blade said to have cut off the head of His late Majesty. Up went bids from 2,000 francs ($135) until everyone dropped out but the plumpish unknown and that well-known collector of French Revolution mementoes, M. Charles Lievre. In a final spurt to 12,500 francs ($835), the blade went to M. Lievre, along with documents certifying that until 1893 it had remained in the executioner...