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Word: plumpness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...voted the church laws or embraced the entire Government from President Zamora down to the humblest customs inspector, was not stated. Hardest hit was Alcala Zamora. A devout Catholic, he dearly loves the solace of the Mass. When Madrid hotheads set fire to Jesuit churches two years ago, plump Senora Alcala Zamora distinguished herself by driving in an open carriage to each of the burned buildings, sitting before the door loudly saying her beads...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: Excommunicated | 6/12/1933 | See Source »

King George had more than one reason for fêting the winner. He held a ticket on Hyperion in the sweepstakes of London's swank Maryborough Club. In Queens, N. Y. plump Telephone Operator Louise M. Popp. 27, won $118,500 with a 82 Irish sweepstakes ticket on Hyperion. John Byron, 73, Staten Island messenger, won $40,000 on Statesman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Lord Derby's Derby | 6/12/1933 | See Source »

Last week, still in the hospital ward, he died. By his bedside was a friend as loyal as his own boast, the darling of his salad days and toast of the old Savoy. Peggy Primrose, now plump Mrs. Peggy Lowe. His last gesture was to refuse an allowance of ?1 a week from the bitter, hollow-cheeked printer who sent him to jail and smashed his career: Reuben Bigland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Death Of John Bull | 6/5/1933 | See Source »

...house of cards collapsed. During and after the War plump Horatio helped the British Government against its own wishes and his own paper by organizing a series of lotteries, entitled Victory Club, Victory Bond Club, Thrift Bond Prize Club, Victory Derby Sweepstake, etc., etc. Patriots who could not afford a British bond bought tickets. Horatio Bottomley bought bonds and distributed huge prizes to the lucky winners...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Death Of John Bull | 6/5/1933 | See Source »

...Morgan & Co.'s plump, bespectacled office manager, Leonard A. Keyes, climbs on the stand with a big leather-backed ledger in his arms. From it he reads the story of how Banker Mitchell's $30,000,000 fortune was wiped out. On a wild stockmarket day in October 1929, Mr. Mitchell turned to the House of Morgan for a $12,000,000 loan to support the market for National City Bank stock. By the spring of 1930 the loan had been cut to $6,000,000 but the stockmarket had hardly begun its great decline. Thereafter every...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Charles & Elizabeth | 5/29/1933 | See Source »

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