Word: plumpness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Coolidge, in summery white hat, suit and gloves, went too. They took seven-year-old Suzanne Boone and her parents. (Dr. Joel T. Boone is White House physician.) With Mr. Ringling by their side they saw the land elephants and lots of other creatures. President Coolidge shook hands with plump little Lilian Leitzel, the show's regal trapeze artist. And before hurrying back to his duties, President Coolidge discovered that a sea elephant is just an overgrown species of seal (Mirounga leonina), carnivorous, mammalian, with a flexible proboscis (not nearly so long as the land elephant's), wiry...
...Divorced Wives of Dictator Mustafa Kemal Pasha of Turkey are: first the great Halide Edib Hanoum, foremost Turkish feminist; and secondly the plump and pretty Latife Hanoum, winsome, vivacious, rich...
...crowded House of Commons gave fascinated attention, last week, to plump, ruddy-cheeked Rt. Hon. Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, shrewdly audacious Chancellor of Great Britain's Exchequer...
...most spectacular; this brought the total for the entire sale to $2,297,763, the largest amount ever returned at a U. S. art auction. The most notable piece purchased on the last afternoon was a small marble bust by Jean Antoine Houdon; the head was that of a plump and imperious baby girl, the daughter of the artist. The woman who got the bust was later discovered to be a buyer for M. Knoedler & Co., who in turn were probably buying for Mrs. Edward Stephen Harkness...
Clarence Walker Barron, 72, plump publisher of The Wall Street Journal, was sued for slander for $100,000 by Princess Margaret Ghika of Rumania, now a resident of Manhattan. She claims that Mr. Barron called her "a spy ... a very dangerous woman" at a dinner party at his home in Cohasset, Mass., last August...