Word: plumpness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...land boom, two hurricanes, a plague of Mediterranean fruit flies and a Depression laid Florida low. A Brooklyn-born Yaleman has done what he could to hoist it to its feet. Jolly, plump Dave Sholtz went to Florida at 22 to study law. Becoming an Elk, a Shriner, a Rotarian and president of the Florida Chamber of Commerce, he learned to spout the booster's creed. When Florida elected him Governor in 1932 he proved his loyalty by routing official drones, paring expenses, making the State's financial outlook the most hopeful in seven years...
Near Stillwater, Okla. four years ago husky Clyde Cook, 45, and his plump wife Jessie, 40, packed their children into an old automobile, drove north. Drought and Depression had whipped them in Oklahoma. All they hoped for now was to raise enough food for their growing family. At Walker, Minn, somebody told them about a dried-up lake bottom they might farm. Clyde Cook tried it. He kept his family of five boys and two girls alive somehow until the New Deal came along. Then he went on relief...
...Foil. Today Reynolds Metals is a $12,000,000 corporation listed on the New York Stock Exchange but U. S. Foil, now simply a holding company, owns about 55% of its stock and also controls Eskimo Pie Corp. President of all three is Richard Samuel Reynolds, a plump, confident, sales-minded executive of 53 whose only real diversion is composing privately-printed verses while shaving...
...Hollywood, having had the way paved for her by Binnie Barnes (There's Always Tomorrow), Merle Oberon (Folies Bergere) and Wendy Barrie (It's a Small World). In private life also Miss Lanchester is the wife of Henry VIII (Charles Laughton). Although he is known for his plump effeminacy, she is mannish in dress. She journeyed from England to play Clickett Micawber's slavey in David Copperfield, a portrait mostly left on the cutting-room floor; appeared briefly in Naughty Marietta. As a child she refused to be educated at a young ladies' seminary...
...hang high on every road. Holy Church has been chastening her heretical children. In the Abbey of La Soleza, whose fanatical head, Fray Sebastian, is a power of the Inquisition, the fat Monk Hilarius manages to eke out the monastic rule with copious drams and frequent visits to his plump doxy, who has borne him four sons. To this paganish priest comes young Soldier Pedro, with his belly full of fighting but sadly in need of food and drink...