Word: plumpness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...what was evidently a feeling of Might-were the summaries given to correspondents in Rome and Berlin of what Mussolini and Göring talked about and agreed on during the business intervals of a round of Italian fetes for General-Oberst und Frau Göring, she the plump, onetime "State Actress of Prussia," Emmy Sonnemann. It amounted to this...
...widow of a shipping tycoon. Lady Houston considered herself a Conservative, but made her otherwise mediocre weekly memorable for the blatancy of its attacks on Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin and Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden, who she believed were plotting to sell out the British nation to the Bolsheviks. A plump, imperious person, voluble to an epic degree, Lady Houston died last month, her age, which she had kept secret, probably 65 to 70. Since no will was found, Lady Houston's former associates were left to issue the Saturday Review as they saw fit and as best they could...
Sonja Henie contradicts not only the law of gravity but also the rule that women athletes are physically unsuited for roles as romantic heroines. A trim-figured blonde with brown eyes, plump cheeks, a dimpled smile, she fits with assurance into an anecdote-about a U. S. theatrical manager (Adolphe Menjou) on the lookout for new talent while touring the Alps with his own troupe-of which the chief virtue is the fact that it is not much impaired by interruptions. In addition to Sonja Henie's skating, these include harmonica-tooting by Borrah Minnevitch & band, singing by Leah...
This year's Gridiron Widows party was one of the most intimate shows ever seen at the White House. Not counting a burlesque of burlesque in which a plump newshen did a strip tease, another in red flannel underwear did a fan dance, there was a scene in which one of the characters suggested that the Roosevelts "must like people; they marry so many of them," in which was outlined (but not played) a scene between Mrs. Roosevelt and Queen Mary, discussing their sons' prospective marriages...
...Louis Court of Appeals to recover the baby from Mrs. Muench. After long hearings the baby was restored to the Pennsylvania girl (TIME, Dec. 16, 1935). Newshawks continued to dig until they got socialite Dr. Marsh Pitzman to confess what had long been suspected: that he had been plump Mrs. Muench's lover, had given her some $16,000 for her kidnapping defense when she persuaded him that the child was theirs...