Word: plumpness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Limping into a Mineola, N. Y. courtroom, plump, deaf Gertrude Ederle, celebrated English Channel swimmer (1926), opened suit for $50,000 damages against the Justine Apartments, where she claims she slipped on a loose stair tile in 1933, suffering a permanent spinal injury which has kept her invalid ever since...
Cornells Bol talks wittily in his imperfect English, likes sloppy, comfortable clothes, has a plump wife and five chubby sons for whom he keeps a horse and a ponycart. Born in Holland 52 years ago, he came to the U. S. in 1907 to study at Princeton, Stanford, the University of Montana, returned in 1916 to his native land where he worked on the development of sodium vapor lamps in the Philips laboratories and devised a way of sealing chrome steel to glass in X-ray apparatus. Last autumn he again bobbed up at Stanford as a research assistant. "Europe...
...public furor, got the city's newspapers solidly behind them. In May, convinced that they were being deliberately impeded, they took the extraordinary step of barring an assistant district attorney from their proceedings. After this clean break with local officialdom, their next move was to plump their rage and scorn and indignation square on the doorstep of New York's Herbert...
...there is a real place for my kind of music. Some time, when I get older-I am 44 now-I may try a strict symphony form, but in the meantime I am going on trying to describe America in music." The America of Ferde Grofe (pronounced Ferdy GroFay), plump onetime arranger for Paul Whiteman and for the past five years a highly successful semi-classical musician on his own, is bounded by Manhattan (Tabloid Suite), New Orleans (Mardi Gras), Hollywood (Hollywood Suite). It includes scenic wonders (Grand Canyon Suite} and clanging industry (Symphony in Steel). Last week...
Andre Kostelanetz is a plump, semi-bald radio orchestra leader of high talent. Last summer he achieved the kind of publicity radiofolk dote on by flying from New York to Los Angeles and back on 13 consecutive week ends. In Manhattan he conducted a radio show; in Hollywood he would ask Lily Pons to marry him. On the 13th proposal she said, "Yes." Last week they were still unwed, but Musician Kostelanetz received a reward for his persistence...