Word: plumpness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...With the aid of an order from President Roosevelt opening income tax returns to their inspection, Senate snoopers found that plump Vice President Fred S. Burroughs of Associated Gas & Electric had a salary of $60,000 paid by one of plump Howard C. Hopson's holding companies which in turn charged other companies in the system an aggregate of $150,000 a year for their respective shares of Mr. Burroughs' services...
...last week plump, dark-haired Widow Pansy Yount, Founder Lee and six other stockholders met in a private room at First National Bank of Houston. On hand to greet them was a Houston lawyer named Wright Morrow. In Lawyer Morrow's checking account at First National was a credit of approximately $46,000,000. Among the eight stockholders he distributed a handful of checks, also totaling $46,000,000, drawn on his account. In return he received all the stock of the Yount-Lee Oil Co. at a price of approximately $2,190 per share. Biggest check went...
...plump and gentle little body of 58, Mrs. Mahnkey's journalism is only a sideline. What she is really interested in is her poetry, which Missouri literary folk like Rose Wilder Lane would like to see properly published. A contributor of verse, letters and farm gossip to Country Home for years, Mrs. Mahnkey was partly responsible for the magazine's contest, having suggested such an event last spring. Editor Wheeler McMillen, once director of an Ohio country paper, and Editor Russell Lord, who takes more pride in his Maryland farm than in the fact that he edited...
...eyes turned to the plump, cherubic-looking young speaker seated at one end of the long green table in the House caucus room...
...Hirohito set in motion the ponderous, costly mechanism of a Japanese imperial birth. Soon carpenters will whack together in the Fountain Garden the elaborate Maternity Pavilion which has to be built of spotless new materials every time the lean, bespectacled little Emperor's physicians decide to wind his plump and pretty Empress in a white silk maternity belt purified by Shinto priests...