Word: plumpness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...people like big books, pretty books, with red and green covers, nice pictures. When he buys books, he buys by weight, size, color. What is inside the book does not interest him. Pulling down a volume from a publisher's stockroom shelves, he turns it over in his plump hands, says: "Tick [thick], 18?." If it is thin, he says: "Tin, 8?." Some sixth sense supplies him with his shrewd literary judgments. Of one unfortunate author he is supposed to have said: "Dat guy? Dat guy? He couldn't even write a good remainder...
...Chicago, Richard Bogash, whose plump, middle-aged mate, Josephine ("Ma") Bogash, is a roller-skating champion brought a $200,000 suit against the Transcontinental Roller Derby Association and Promoter-Manager Leo Seltzer. Grounds: "In the course of the races there are numerous falls in which the limbs of the plaintiff's wife and other parts of her body are exposed to the gaze of a crowd of spectators...
...fever-are usually transmitted to children by their elders, said Dr. Fairfax Hall of New Rochelle, N. Y. He viewed with alarm the fact that 18,000 U. S. schoolteachers have tuberculosis, that no laws prevent them from spreading their infections in classrooms. Dr. Hall urged the Academy to plump for examinations of teachers, to educate parents to insist on health cards for domestics. In wealthy Westchester County, N. Y., where 25% of high-school children had a positive tuberculin reaction, an organized campaign of adult health examinations, at the low price of $7 a person a year, .was started...
...discuss politics had to get along with Commentator Gabriel Heatter. This week, after three years of one of the most phenomenally successful careers in U. S. journalism, Dorothy Thompson knocked off work for a month and hopped a plane for California, turning down all proffered honors and showed a plump pair of legs to the millions of women who think of her as something between a Cassandra and a Joan...
...night before in Winnipeg, Governor Stassen had addressed 400 guests at a civic reception in his honor. Subject: good will. That morning he had addressed 135 members of the Winnipeg Board of Trade at a good-will breakfast. The Governor's plump wife had spent several hours dressing for her presentation to the King and Queen. The Governor had donned his cutaway and striped trousers, plastered down his bright red hair...