Word: plumpness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Manhattan show was a pencil drawing on brown wrapping paper called Adolescence lent by Clarence Guy Littell, president of Chicago's R. R. Donnelley & Sons Co. (The Lakeside Press). It showed a gaunt, pinfeathered Plymouth Rock cockerel rising in the faint light of early dawn between his plump parents for his first lusty crow (see cut). The drawing was made in 1933. Recently Artist Wood's good friend and competitor, Thomas Benton, saw it, grew hugely excited, wrote Grant Wood that if he did not make a painting of it at once, Benton would do a picture...
Born 67 years ago in Bald Mount, Pa., the plump, dour little merchant has cherished his farm-learned virtues, of which the dearest is Hard Work. He has spent his millions freely in a long war against Rum, Tobacco and other worldly evils, has set up a $25,000,000 Kresge Foundation to further his moral and philanthropic ends.* Offered a drink or a cigar, Mr. Kresge says politely: "Hoping always to have my own views and opinions respected, I respect the opinions of others." Another Kresgeism: "If there were any sound arguments to be advanced on behalf...
Blithely undisturbed by the typewriter issue was Miss Bertha Agnes Connor, a plump, blonde lady who supervises the penmanship work of 6,000 Boston teachers. As president of the Association, Miss Connor outlined her Theory of the History of Penmanship...
...Marina) who finally married Paul, now Prince Regent of Yugoslavia. Rumor then coupled Denmark's Frederick with Belgium's Maria José, Britain's Lady May Cambridge, and various Spanish princesses. A lunatic school of rumor even had him engaged to The Netherlands' plump Crown Princess Juliana, who is heir to a throne...
...despite the paralyzed hand that the War gave him. Jean, the second, is a cinema director, lately produced a well reviewed film of Madame Bovary. Blond Claude, familiar to all art students in dozens of child portraits, is the plump & prosperous owner of the largest cinema in Antibes, L'Antipolis...