Word: plumpness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Island at the mouth of the Gulf of Finland, not far from St. Petersburg itself. Twenty years before, Dagö Island had been colonized by good industrious Swedes who fished in the Gulf and made hay on the salt marshes. In 1787, Peter's grand-daughter-in-law, plump, passionate Catherine II grew tired of this Swedish colony practically at her doorstep. With a gesture she had it deported. The Dago fishermen and their families were driven to the mainland, herded across Russia, stopped for a time in southern Russia, settled at last in the Ukraine, out of sight...
Quietly, the slightly plump, round-faced Mr. Harris and the pretty, brown-haired Mrs. Harris went to work. He composed the editorials. She reviewed books, edited the women's pages, wrote articles. Before long Columbus citizens started to wonder what kind of persons these Harrises really were. Their newspaper was openly fighting the Ku Klux Klan. It was fighting intolerance. It was criticizing racial prejudices. These are the kind of editorials Columbians started to read...
...capital he had journeyed over night to attend the White House promul gation of the General Treaty for the Renunciation of War, creature of his own administration (see col. 1). Observers studied him sharply for changes, found that he talked more freely, smiled more benignly, looked a little less plump, a little less wrinkled about the eyes than when he had left the White House. If he had any regrets on revisiting the scenes of his political triumphs' he muffled them under a flow of small-bore conversation...
...small roly-poly porpoise sporting pompously in a pool would not be happier than was Egypt's plump, glistening little King Fuad in London last week. For four years His Majesty and his ministers on the Nile have been dictated to, nay openly bullied, by the British High Commissioner to Egypt, sleek, superior Baron George Ambrose Lloyd of Dolobran. Last week, in humiliating circumstances, the High Commissioner was forced to resign by his own Government, which at first withheld public explanation. In the House of Commons a teapot typhoon of invective rose...
...shooting at that goal. Her best shot was a 676, made in 1911 on a record crossing from Cherbourg to Manhattan. Last week the Bremen, on her first day out from Cherbourg sped 687 miles for a new world's one-day record. As she nosed into Manhattan plump Captain Leopold Ziegen-bein snapped his stopwatch and beamingly announced that the Bremen's time from Cherbourg to Ambrose Light had been 4 days, 17 hours, 42 minutes. The Maure-tania's best record for the same course was 5 days, 2 hours, 34 minutes. On her second...