Word: plumpness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hustling little manufacturer of candy bars, cocoa and chocolate is Ambrosia Chocolate Co. of Milwaukee which employs 155 people. Its president is a plump, smiling German named Gretchen Schoenleber who inherited the concern from her father. Miss Schoenleber, middle-aged and businesslike, regularly puts her black low-heeled brogues under her desk before 8 o'clock every morning. Once a stenographer, later general manager of Ambrosia chocolate, she rules her executives with a firm German hand, is fond of saying: "The fact I'm a woman makes no difference...
...Haile Selassie arose early, stepped into his automobile which took him up a hill to the octagonal, ornate Cathedral of St. Ghiorghis. He took off his wing-tipped sport shoes, padded into the gold-veiled sanctuary. Empress Waizeru Menen, who dearly loves the Christian solace of confession, and 70 plump brown Ethiopian ladies entered the Cathedral by another door. In concentric circles according to rank squatted court functionaries, deacons, laymen, foreign missionaries and U. S. Chargé d'Affaires Cornelius Engert. With rain beating monotonously outside, there arose the sound of bells and, from the sanctuary, the clash...
Softly, Taitou, Leader of the Ethiopian women on that bloody March 1, 1896, was the Empress Taitou, fourth wife of Menelik II. A more polite version of her predecessor's part in the battle of Adowa was given last fortnight by plump Empress Menen, only wife of Power-of-Trinity, as she nibbled pink iced cake and drank jasmine tea at Addis Ababa...
...most electrochemists Columbia University's Colin Garfield Fink is the man who found a practical way to make chromium stick to other metals by electroplating. Plump, grizzled Dr. Fink has done other valuable work electroplating with tungsten and rhenium but he worked longest and hardest with chromium. When he found that sulphate ions from ordinary sulphuric acid in his plating bath would do the trick, automobiles, kitchens and modern furniture began to take on a new appearance...
...late 20's, plump, moderately pretty. Though it is her third trip to New York and she will not be taken in by the old trade wheeze about "going down to Canal Street to see the canal,"* she is excited, brings along too many clothes. She arrives in a long-sleeved black dress, finds the temperature 88°. The store allows her $8 a day and carfare. She registers at the Hotel McAlpin, convenient to the garment centre. After notifying the Times and the Women's Wear Daily of her arrival, she calls on her store...