Word: plumpness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...plump and snowy-haired Liberals of international fame aired publicly last week the great party schism which has slowly widened between them since the Boer War. Even at that period Mr. Lloyd George?an irrepressible pro-Boer "was attempting to lead the Liberal party leftward, while the present Earl of Oxford and Asquith* strove?then as now?to curb what he deemed the too great liberality of Liberals. For a time the Asquithians saw their leader supreme, within the party and the Government, as Prime Minister (1908-16). Then Lloyd George wrested the Premiership for himself...
...Plump President Doumergue of the French Republic visited the new memorial building of the American Hospital at Neuilly last week with U. S. Ambassador Myron T. Herrick...
...luxurious and presumably peaceful retirement in Pittsburgh to play Little Buttercup. She weighs three times what she did when she was the queen of the old Weber and Fields music hall. The audience, boisterously affectionate in their greeting, agreed with the captain of the Pinafore that she was "a plump and pleasing person...
...Gould, for 19 years the world's court tennis champion, appeared on the front pages of several metropolitan newspapers. The story of his life and his athletic successes was recounted with much picturesque detail, prefaced by the sad particulars of his recent and disastrous illness. His photograph also?a plump, animated, swarthy face with a short mustache and a very round high forehead?was published near the stock photograph of Henry Miller, the actor (see MILESTONES), who had died on the same...
TINSEL?Charles Hanson Towne?Appleton ($2). Author Towne has been moved to chronicle a Midland social climber; how she scrambled as high as Newport and Palm Beach, barked her plump shins and returned at last to the shade of the family awning factory in Eureka. Her son, daughter and husband suffered in kind. The idea was to make it a gently humorous tale, and the Eureka Independence Day tableau starts things off well?Delia Nesbit, the awning queen, as Miss Columbia, and other Eureka dames assigned states according to social pedigree. But too many of the author's other ideas...