Word: plumpness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...query on the Rex "But isn't Australia terribly raw?" plump, vivacious Mrs. Lyons answered, "Yes, the salads!", her favorite repartee whenever Australia's rawness comes up. Another favorite remark of hers: "You must have happiness in married life. The mother should be like a beloved Queen." Burly, curly Joe Lyons when he saw Queen Mary several weeks ago for the first time in his life exclaimed involuntarily: "Magnificent! Magnificent...
...audience may not have understood the nature of Father Coughlin's National Union for Social Justice. But it did feel the emotional appeal of the sweating orator on the platform. At will the plump priest changed boos for the "prostituted press" to resounding cheers for assembled newshawks. In a phrase he switched catcalls at Senator Wagner's vote against the Bonus to huzzahs for Senator Wagner, "the friend of Labor...
...within his church (TIME, April 8 et ante). But he was in Cincinnati, leading the fight from the sidelines and in the newspapers with all the zeal of a man who has given his name to a movement. ("The issue," said onetime Moderator John McDowell, "is Presbyterianism v. Machenism.") Plump-faced, scholarly Dr. Machen last week saw Machenism trounced on the following fronts...
...distinguished audience that the Cardinal had before him. Representing Germany was plump Hermann Wilhelm Göring and a group of Nazi generals. Marshal Pétain and Foreign Minister Pierre Laval of France were there. Because U. S. Ambassador Cudahy was on vacation, busy, bald William C. Bullitt flew from Moscow to represent the U. S. The Earl of Cavan, a field marshal in the British Army, represented George...
...bogey man flickered until last week through the shuttered bordellos of Havana, the rich red valleys of inland Cuba, the old Spanish fortresses of the coast. He had guns and money and followers, among them a plump, blonde, temperish Cuban-Irish trollop named Ziomara O'Halloran. He was wanted badly by Army Chief of Staff Batista, with whom he had a deadly personal feud. For the record, however, Batista wanted him for three crimes: 1) the shooting of a treacherous colleague, 2) the kidnapping of a rich Cuban idler for the fabulous ransom of $300,000, and 3) engineering...