Word: plumpness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...house of Bond & Goodwin in 1929 when Eugene Meyer, then Federal Farm Loan Commissioner, telephoned him from Washington. After that long-distance interview he became a fiscal agent, with his amazingly wide acquaintance among U. S. bankers, acquired in distributing commercial paper, as his most valuable asset. A large, plump, kindly man with close-cropped hair, Mr. Dunn raises prize roses at his home in Westfield, N. J. He can never remember their botanical names...
...built on the Lincoln line-a tall, lanky, restless Midwesterner with a high twangy voice, a shaggy mop of mouse-colored hair, a heavy mustache. He and Mrs. Hoan go to the cinema occasionally, spend a good many evenings playing bridge, usually with the same neighbor couple. Sometimes plump, jolly Mrs. Hoan plays at the Elks Club. She never misses a Sunday at her Roman Catholic Church. Once in a while Mr. Hoan goes with her. Mr. Hoan thinks Mrs. Hoan is the best cook in the world...
...Academy prize for adaptation. In the part that 25-year-old Florence McGee plays on the stage, solemn nervous Bonita Granville, 13, makes herself as odious as any little girl who has yet appeared in cinema. Among the other children concerned, major acting honors in These Three go to plump little Marcia Mae Jones, as Rosalie, Mary Tilford's unwilling accomplice. Good shot: Mary blackmailing Rosalie into corroborating her baseless story by threatening to accuse her of stealing...
...repeated the tawny color of her skin in the tan walls, the rich brown of the floor. Other pictures that stopped gallerygoers: two young women lying side by side on a lake shore, one nude, the other dressed only in silk stockings & pumps; and the back view of a plump female sprawled on a divan. A Guggenheim Fellowship and many exhibition prizes have come to Artist Ganso, but watchful Dealer Weyhe is careful not to overprice his work. Ganso's most seductive nudes sell for $150 to $500 apiece...
...canvases shown were a succession of hulking figures, mostly nude and vaguely classical, painted in the earthy browns, yellows and reds of early Italian frescoes. Best of the lot was Mario Tozzi's solidly painted Farmer's Dream, a portrait of a plump, prosperous and sleepy-eyed husbandman, seated at a country café table by a jug of wine...