Word: plumpness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Kansas City, Mo. plump, blue-eyed Mrs. Lottie Crumley, 34, confessed to police a plan to: 1) marry an ailing pool room attendant; 2) insure him for at least $1,000; 3) kill him in a fake hold-up or automobile accident; 4) collect the insurance and pay a gunman to kill the wife of a street car motorman and; 5) marry the motorman. "I am in love with the motorman," she concluded, "and he promised to marry me." Said the motorman: "She was a pest who was riding in my car at every opportunity...
Married. Kathryn Schrafft, plump opera-singing daughter of the late Candy Tycoon George F. Schrafft; and Sir Peter Norton-Griffiths, handsome London barrister; in Newton, Mass...
Told to increase her weight by at least 40 Ib. before she plays plump Queen Victoria in Manhattan this winter, Helen, Hayes ate her first birthday cake in 15 years, proudly announced that she already weighs 103 lb., said. 'I want to be luscious-luscious...
Vasya's wife Ludmilla (Beatrice De Neergaard) is a plump, "undeveloped" peasant who cannot join the Party because she insists on retaining such "bourgeois knickknacks" as a canary, sofa pillows, curtains, rubber plants. She also has "medieval notions" about making men comfortable. Abram's wife Tonya (Fraye Gilbert), on the other hand, catechizes her husband on "ideology," hounds him with a book when he is hungry. The couples inevitably end by quarreling with their mates, longing for a rearrangement. When the poet learns what has happened to his collective paradise, he mutters bitterly, "Sabotage!" The rearrangement is effected...
...rakes and stones, tore Crempa out of the hands of the deputy sheriffs. Crempa sat alertly at a second-floor window of his neat, brown-shingled house, watching the approaches and doing home piecework for another tailor. His son took a job in a riding academy. Crempa's plump, brisk Wife Sophie and his pretty 19-year-old Daughter Carmelia tended a six-acre truck farm behind the house, sold the produce to passing motorists. Now & then Crempa from his window nourished a gun at brash deputy sheriffs. Scotch Plains looked on Crempa as a hero, the impotent sheriff...