Word: plumpness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...jute trade is that of Sir David Yule, an extraordinary Scotsman who died in 1928 after making a fortune of $100,000,000 in Calcutta. His dislike of things European relented enough to let him marry an Englishwoman but never to live in England. Since his death, plump, inscrutable Lady Yule and Daughter Gladys ("the richest girl in England") have lived quietly at St. Albans cultivating their private zoo. Their friend, the Duke of Windsor, borrowed the Yule yacht Nahlin for his cruise last summer. When the Yules visited Manhattan last May they avoided socialites and reporters with equal discrimination...
...convention once more resolved to plump for the Harrison-Black-Fletcher bill, encouraged NEA's adult education section to strike Congress for another $25,000,000 to eradicate illiteracy...
First thing anyone learns about plump, suave Dr. H. H. Kung, Vice President and Finance Minister of China, is that he is the 75th direct descendant of Confucius...
...could-for he would not have a chance of election with Roosevelt nursing a grudge against him. 3) Since Franklin Roosevelt has already made sounds intended to indicate that he will not be a candidate there is no one safer for another candidate to plump for. 4) By speaking up, Governor Earle got himself what every candidate needs most, early publicity. Finally, though a third-term campaign might wreck Franklin Roosevelt if he pressed it, acting as its first sponsor could not harm George Earle and bringing it into the open early might be the best way of heading...
...last week several score plump, giggling ladies of a certain age risked their lives riding across the ruffled waters of Chesapeake Bay aboard a small tender. The Senate Ladies Club and a collection of wives of the Cabinet and of ex-officials (among them Widow Woodrow Wilson), were off on a jaunt to that sanctum of male Democratic leisure, the Jefferson Islands Club some 20 miles southeast of Annapolis. They had a look through the rambling clubhouse, traipsed over the 34-acre island on which it stands and viewed the Club's 136-acre duck-hunting preserve. After...