Word: plumpness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Weeping bitter salt tears last week by the bitter salt waters of Port Said was plump Amanullah, exiled King of Afghanistan. He stood by the rail of the P. & O. liner Mooltan and moaned to a battery of sympathetic reporters...
...knew a short, plump, brown-eyed, dark-haired schoolteacher with a wealthy sire and Puritan blood. Her name was Laura Celestia Spelman. When they were 25 each, John D. married her. The next year (1865) from dabbling tentatively in the oil that was gushing up in Ohio, Pennsylvania and New York, John D. became an oilman to the exclusion of all else. His refining firm was Rockefeller, Andrews & Flagier, later (1870) the Standard Oil Company. Railroads whose good customer Standard became helped Standard suppress competition by furnishing reports on competitors' shipments. John D. hated having rivals. By 1877 one company...
This reference was to His Majesty King Ahmed Fuad I who, plump, dusky, serene and 61, arrived last week in Berlin on a visit the reason for which was vague to most Berliners. In art circles it was said that Egypt's sovereign was making strenuous efforts to have the German Government return to Cairo the famed bust of Queen Nefertete, excavated by German archeologists in 1913 and considered one of the most important of all Egyptian sculptures...
Whatever his real reason, the suave monarch did have fun. He slept in the Prince Albrecht Palace (occupied last year by plump King Amanullah of Afghanistan). He reviewed troops with grizzled President von Hindenburg. He was publicly and elaborately dined, lunched, toasted, hocked. He gravely inspected Tempelhof airport and the once-royal Staatliche Porzellan Manufaktur. On Unter den Linden, he visited a beauty parlor and, smiling at the dimpled manicurists, said: "Aha! Here is my chance to have my fingers attended...
Japanese Ambassador M. Katsuji Debuchi, a true diplomat striving always to comprehend and reflect U. S. life. Short, plump, all smiles, he prides himself on his easy colloquial English...