Word: plumpness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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While Longone was irritably defending himself, one Doris Maud Underwood, plump Indian soprano who bills herself as Princess Pakanli of the Chickasaw tribe, brought suit against him for $30,000, claiming that he encouraged her to prepare for leading roles, then refused to let her perform unless she paid him a guarantee of $5,500. Similar rumors kept popping. Critic Glenn Dillard Gunn of the Herald & Examiner openly asserted that Ethel Leginska had paid for the production of her opera, Gale. Soprano Lola Fletcher admitted privately that she had to pay $125 to sing Musetta in La Boheme...
Widow Leslie has long written a daily editorial for the News under her own name, and many a hoaxed reader sends Columnist Nancy Brown messages and gifts to hand to Editorial Writer Leslie. At 65 she is a small, plump person, shy, softspoken, white-haired. She belongs to the Unitarian Church, lives at No. 1224 Glynn Court, Detroit...
...abomination, that they will best serve themselves and their mother by eschewing men. working hard, saving their money so that they can all go to Hollywood one day and be rich and famed. Daughter Violet, after smashing one man with a water bottle, goes off with a fisherman. Plump Daughter Clarice, starving to be a tap dancer, succumbs naturally to a German carpenter and a mess of pork chops. And only after a sailor has left her with a baby does Daughter Ruby peek into her parents' bedroom, find that her mother was fooling all the time...
Berlin's Mayors, like New York's, have frequently been in hot water. That passionate pinochle player, plump little Mayor Gustav Boess. for example, was ignominiously hauled back from a junket to the U. S. six years ago when it was discovered that his wife had accepted an expensive fur coat from some outfitters who got city contracts for hospital uniforms (TIME...
...Farley's hopes last week of carrying his home State (see col. 2), but higher still were his hopes of carrying his home district. In Haverstraw only fortnight ago he had opened a shiny new $65,000 post office. In Haverstraw last week his own flesh & blood, plump Tom Farley, was running for County Supervisor...