Word: plumpness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...inch from the curb. James or William are reading their tabloids and ogling passing maids and nurses. But the streetcar still runs. It rumbles up to the great, grey building, shudders to a violent halt, relaxes with a compressed air sign, and allows passengers to scurry off. Two women, plump, middle-aged, the kind who dress the same for every occasion, every season, every time they go out of the house. A lad whose gaudy suit calls up instant associations with bargain basements. A sour wisp of a woman, ugly and thirty, about whose person the shadow...
...Washington last week, Envoy Roberts' call was finally returned by Sultan Seyed Syeed Bin's plump, brown-skinned, 27-year-old descendant, Muscat and Oman's Sultan Saiyid Said bin Taimur. Having traveled in the U. S. for three weeks incognito as Mr. Said, the Sultan managed to reach town one day ahead of Albania's Princesses Myzeyen, Ruhijé and Maxhide, resumed his royal status in Washington's Union Station where he emerged from his train dressed in native costume of brown robe, white undershirt, jeweled turban and dagger. Promptly and rudely nicknamed "Sultan...
...assembled by Leonard Sillman; produced by Elsa Maxwell). Elsa Maxwell, the plump swizzle-stick of Manhattan's Cafe Society, stood sponsor last week to Manhattan's latest revue. On opening night, most of Café Society found their seats quite nimbly in the dark, came through like little majors with applause. Bursting with bright ideas, Who's Who usually fumbled them in either the writing or the acting. Possibly Producer Maxwell would have considered it not quite suitable for the show to seem too professional...
...months he was sleeping in Bombay parks. Then a calendar company commissioned him to paint a goddess. After two more months of painting goddesses, young Yawalkar tired of city life and lit out for home. There he remained until about a year ago, when the young, rich, plump, art-loving Maharaja of Gwalior invited him to show his paintings at the palace, Upshot of that was that Artist Yawalkar went to Paris last year, then to London, and this week, in Manhattan, had his first big one-man show. It was also the first show of any importance...
...When the plump, round-faced Czech Soprano Gertrude Pitzinger made her U. S. debut in Manhattan's Town Hall month before last, few U. S. concertgoers had ever heard of her. Last week, as Soprano Pitzinger finished her first U. S. tour, delighted critics went back a whole generation for their comparisons, acclaimed her as the greatest Lieder singer since Wüllner, Gulp and Gerhardt. Thirty-two-year-old Soprano Pitzinger learned Lieder as a girl from Bohemian peasants, studied more with Vienna's famed Lieder composer, Joseph Marx. Five years ago she braved a Berlin recital...