Word: plumpness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...about the same time plump Vittorio Mussolini was explaining to Manhattan reporters that he was in the U. S. to spend 20 days in Hollywood studying production methods as a prelude to his new career: the presidency of an Italian cinema corporation to be known as R.A.M. Films. He said his favorite Hollywood characters are Greta Garbo and Mickey Mouse, there was absolutely nothing political in his visit and he found American women beautiful...
...continued success of their security program, Mormons were at the same time asked to pray and work. Pithy, ominous Mormon advice went out to all Church members from the First Counselor in the potent, three-man First Presidency-plump J. (for Joshua) Reuben Clark Jr., able lawyer, able onetime colleague and successor of Dwight Whitney Morrow as U. S. Ambassador to Mexico. Counselor Clark warned Mormons of the next depression, "more serious, affecting intimately far greater numbers of people than the one we are now finishing. To prepare for this coming disaster we must avoid debt as we would avoid...
...years ago, in the Montparnasse quarter of Paris, there were four persons known, by name at least, to the most assiduous tourist and most casual habitué. These were: Flossie Martin, plump, china-cheeked ex-show girl; Kiki, black-haired, impish French painters' model; Nina Hamnett, English painter and expert on sailors' chanteys; Jimmy Charters, ruddy-faced and unfailingly genial barman. The four were not friends, were in fact rather rivals, each ruling a separate coterie-the ladies at their tables at the Dome, Rotonde or Select, Jimmy at whatever bar he happened to be tending...
...management to cut the opening show in half. The show itself, like the rest of the International Casino, was on the grand scale more calculated to appeal to the world-&-his-wife than to sophisticated socialites, included a juggler, performing poodles, athletic choruses and a troupe of new style, plump, dimple-backed, languorous European chorus girls with bangs in their eyes...
Audiences like Deanna Durbin for her negative virtues almost as much as for her positive good points. Negatively, she pleases by her lack of the arch, smarty, claphands affectations which have blighted so many Hollywood juveniles in the bud. Positively, she has a clear, appealing soprano, a plump and pleasant face, a buxom 14-year-old physique. In 100 Men & a Girl, as the daughter of an impoverished trombonist (Adolphe Menjou) who is trying vainly to get a job in Stokowski's orchestra, Miss Durbin finds her way without pathetic bumbles through some pretty sentimental sequences. She collects...