Word: plumpness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...says that the female offspring of mice which have cancer of the breast will also develop cancer of the breast (TIME, Aug. 31). Last week at Madison Dr. Madge Thurlow Macklin of London, Ont. declared that this inherited organ susceptibility applied to human beings too. Said Dr. Macklin, 43, plump, vivacious mother of three daughters, and the only woman taking part in the cancer symposium: "We find that the members of a family tend to have the same type of cancer, and in the same organ, and at about the same time of life. Thus it is much commoner...
Added attraction at the execution of 22-year-old Rainey Bethea, who raped and strangled a 70-year-old white woman, was Kentucky's only female sheriff, plump, matronly Mrs. Florence Thompson. When her husband died four months ago. Governor Albert Benjamin ("Happy") Chandler passed his job on to her. It thus became her duty to spring the trap under Bethea. A devout Roman Catholic, Sheriff Thompson consulted her priest, learned from him that nothing in canon law prohibited her from sending the blackamoor to his legal death. Protestant churchmen concurred. Nevertheless, soft-hearted Sheriff Thompson sighed: "I suppose...
...carved a hole big enough to push a beer bottle through. Straight through the abdominal wall he sliced, until the interior of the rumen and the reticulum-two of the four bovine stomach cavities-was disclosed to view. When the edges of the hole in his steer had healed, plump, white-thatched Dr. Schalk, professor of veterinary medicine at Ohio State University, stoppered it with a wooden plug...
...musical hero of Salzburg last week was Conductor Bruno Walter. This able Jew had arrived ailing from the effects of a Vienna performance of Tristan wud Isolde at which Nazi bullyboys threw stink bombs, ending the opera with the plump Isolde (Soprano Anny Konetzni) lying mute and gasping on Tristan's body while the orchestra wabbled through the Liebestod. To Walter at Salzburg was allotted Tristan, Mozart's Don Giovanni, Gluck's Orptmis and Eurydice...
...Plump, brown-eyed, little Mrs. Omlie is 33. In 1918 she was a St. Paul high-school girl who spent every spare moment at the airport, eventually bought a Curtiss JN4D ("Jenny"). A onetime Army officer named Vernon C. Omlie taught her to fly it. Year later, after he had also taught her how to walk wings, make parachute jumps, hang by her teeth or swing from a trapeze on one plane to another in midair, they were married, went barnstorming as "The Flying Omlies." In 1927 Mrs. Omlie won her transport license, first ever granted...