Word: plumpness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
With the world's eyes on war headlines, with grave-faced Franklin Roosevelt dominating the U. S. scene (see p. p), 1940 Presidential aspirants had tough going last week. Hardest-hit was New Hampshire's plump New Deal denouncer, Senator Styles Bridges, who had planned a Western speaking tour. Least affected was Thomas Edmund Dewey, New York County's District Attorney, the jug-eared Galahad who smites crime...
While Prime Minister King met with his Cabinet, plump, black-bearded Percival Price, carilloneur of the Parliament Building's peace tower played, with his assistant Robert Donnell, selections from Wagner, favorite composer of Adolf Hitler. They were practicing for this week's Carilloneurs' Congress in Manhattan. At week's end, Prime Minister King emulated Franklin Roosevelt, sent personal peace pleas to A. Hitler, B. Mussolini, I. Moscicki...
...paid no dividends, has cost President Keep & friends "something less" than $400,000. Revenue has all gone into expansion and promotion; plump, curly Dave Keep hopes eventually to have something that will rival the New Yorker. "If we need more money, we'll put it in," says...
Last week plump Business Manager Bickelhaupt called the Tribune staff together, gave a pep talk, promised a bigger and better newspaper to battle the Star-Journal for supremacy in the Northwest. Possibility: that the all-day Tribune would split into two papers, hold its morning circulation, go after the silk-stocking evening Journal readers...
...University of Washington's arboretum is a lush, tree-planted, 260-acre park built by WPA, west of Seattle's exclusive Broadmoor district. It was the scene last week of a really glittering occasion. After speeches, orchestra music, ceremonies broadcast by radio, plump, close-coupled Collector of Customs Saul Haas, Seattle's Democratic patronage dispenser, lifted a pair of scissors, slashed the gauze covering of an ordinary-looking box. Out twinkled 200 fireflies...