Word: plumpness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have risen from the malodorous sink which is below the lowest caste of India is Dr. Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar, No. 1 Untouchable. This plump, cheery, bespectacled man of no caste, whose very shadow would outrage high-caste Hindus, managed to get a good education in Indian Government schools, was staked to courses at the University of London and Columbia University by the highly democratic Gaekwar of Baroda. Dr. Ambedkar is probably the only man alive who ever walked out in a huff from a private audience with the Pope of Rome. His Holiness Pius XI having heard from Dr. Ambedkar...
...here I am, frankly before you, plump in the middle of heaven, to preach my gospel, and perfectly sure that such paragons of tolerance won't fail to take at least one look at the Other side, the Wrong side, the Bad Side, the False side, which up to now you have, in narrow bigotry, never touched...
...everyone knew that she was far from being a novice, that on the strength of her European reputation she had deserved a Metropolitan hearing several years ago. There were those in the audience who remembered her sensational concert debut in 1923,when she appeared in Carnegie Hall as a plump, glossy-haired girl of 19, an unknown suddenly called upon to substitute for Soprano Anna Case. Subject for high praise then was the beauty of her voice, its vibrant warmth, its effortless production. Smooth singing was to be expected at her Metropolitan debut, and with the exception...
...little science society gathered in the town of Brünn, Austria, to hear a paper on inheritance in plants by an Augustinian monk from the nearby monastery. Gregor Johann Mendel wore a long, black coat and his trousers were tucked into his high boots. He was a plump, genial man with bright, blue eyes...
Revisiting Boys High School, Brooklyn, after 26 years, Florida's plump-jowled, energetic Governor Dave Sholtz examined the 1910 yearbook, which listed his nickname as "Busy Izzy...