Word: plumpness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pompous State Secretary, Dr. Otto Meissner was once secretary to "the George Washington of the German Republic," its first President, Friedrich Ebert (died 1925). One day last week Dr. Meissner picked up his telephone, heard a woman's voice weak with terror, the voice of Widow Ebert, a plump, pink, normally happy hausfrau...
...bitter antiCommunist; of pneumonia; in London. After the Russian revolution he plotted, fought, howled in vain for his Russo-Asiatic Consolidated Mining Trust's $280,000,000 stake in Russian copper, zinc, lead and coal. In 1923 he recouped by getting a monopoly on Turkish imports and exports. Plump, dapper and grey, he sat behind David Lloyd George at The Hague as his adviser on Russian economics...
...Hearst Press boomed Radical Governor Philip Fox La Follette of Wisconsin for Ambassador to Russia, if & when the U. S. S. R. is recognized. (Quietly being boomed for Assistant Secretary of the Navy was Publisher Hearst's plump son George...
...Manhattan recital superbly played. With his $60,000 Stradivarius, Yehudi goes from Manhattan to play at Smith College. He wears long pants now, made for him by the tailor to the Italian Crown Prince. But he is still carefully protected from alluring young girls. His mother and his two plump little sisters, Hepzibah and Yaltah, will go with him to Northampton. Both girls play the piano expertly but Mother Menuhin decided several years ago that one prodigy in the family was enough...
...Europe on phonograph records becomes in time a best-seller in the U. S. "Goodnight, Sweetheart," which Ray Noble wrote in London, ran such a course.* So did "Parlez-moi d'Amour," the fragile song which Lucienne Boyer introduced in Paris, and "Zwei Herzen im ¾ Takt" which plump, be-monocled Richard Tauber introduced in Berlin...