Word: plumpness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...weight strategically behind candidates already in the field in preference to putting up its own. Last week this policy was emphasized by A. L. P. bigwigs convening at the Claridge to lay plans for the future. This year A. L. P.'s new assemblymen will be expected to plump for a fairly well defined platform including: 1) ratification of the child labor amendment, 2) a "little" Wagner-Steagall housing bill for New York, 3) reducing the old age pension limit to 60, 4) municipal power plants as a yardstick for rates, 5) regulation of private detective agencies...
...National Training School for Girls, in Washington, D. C., when plump, hard-working Carrie Weaver Smith became its superintendent last year, compared to the Girls' Industrial School at Beloit roughly as a slum kindergarten compares to Bryn Mawr. Inmates of the N.T.S.G. were some 60 members of the U. S. capital's worst young female riffraff. Most were colored, some white. The majority were three-time offenders. Practically all had either syphilis or gonorrhea. The plant was an obsolete brick building, with badly ventilated rooms and few sanitary facilities. On the theory that the deplorable conditions...
...memoirs of operatic divas go, one in which the author admits she is plump, is not too boastful about herself or too jealous of her peers, is on its face noteworthy. Such a volume (ghosted by Dorothy Giles) is Men, Women and Tenors* by Frances Alda. Long a capable Metropolitan Opera Soprano, first wife of Impresario Giulio Gatti-Casazza, Mme Alda launches her book with much of the triumphant, glassy-smiling air of a diva squaring off at a high C. Says her introduction: "For 50 years (everyone from the radio announcer to the Motor License Bureau knows...
...smooth towers rising 47 stories from Manhattan's Park Avenue, opened its urbane revolving doors just in time to let in the cold whiffs of Depression. Three years later the hotel owed $3,385,000 in back rent to the New York Realty & Terminal Co. and tall, plump President Lucius Boomer had to handle a strike of restaurant workers (TIME, Feb. 5, 1934). Last week two celebrations at the Waldorf gave evidence that after three more years its staff and management were at least happy together. In the Empire Room for three days there was an exhibition...
...long as his plump World-Herald continued to get nearly three-fourths of Omaha's newspaper revenue, cautious Publisher Henry Doorly was glad to have William Randolph Hearst's afternoon Bee News drone about, frightening away any stronger competition. But last week when the concluding edition of the long-doomed Bee News went to press at 2:30 Tuesday afternoon, Publisher Doorly was in Chicago to hand Hearst representatives a $750,000 check for the Bee News plant and its 95,000 circulation...