Word: plumpness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Havana five days prior. Senator Walsh had married Senora Mina Perez Chaumont de Truffin, a wealthy Cuban widow (TIME, March 6). For all his 73 years and a stiff back the grim, grey Montanan was feeling fine & fit for a short honeymoon. From Havana he flew with his plump bride, 20 years his junior, to Miami where he received official notification of his appointment to the Roosevelt Cabinet. He called at the hospital where Chicago's Mayor Cermak lay close to death. Going on to Daytona Beach Senator Walsh, an honest Dry, told newshawks that under him the Department...
Chairman Payson handsomely fits the role of heading an up & coming steel company. His broad thorax bent at an oar on three Yale varsity crews. He is a member of the Foreign Policy Association, a trustee of several hospitals. Plump Joan Whitney Payson has borne him four children, is a partner in a smart book shop. Last month she registered her colors with the American Jockey Club, thus officially taking to horse racing like all the other Whitneys. Husband Payson travels much, drives an imposing Rolls-Royce, likes to cruise north in his yacht to Portland, Me. where his family...
Into My Boy Franklin Mrs. Roosevelt has packed her best recollections of her son's childhood. As a baby he was ''plump, pink and nice.'' A model youngster, he never got spanked. Early association with grown-ups matured him rapidly and he soon became "a responsible little body . . . with a pretty conservative sense of values." Once an aunt told him he was full of tact. His reply: "Yes, I'm just chock full of tacks." He was always busy collecting stamps, building tree houses, modeling boats, stuffing birds, riding his pony. Recalls his mother...
...away anything his friends admired, used to keep 20 or 30 men working till late in the evening and then take them all to a musical show. His own taste ran to sentimental "gypsy" music and Viennese waltzes which he would listen to with the tears running down his plump cheeks. There is reason to believe that Carload Ritchie died on the threshold of a vaster career. Born in the hamlet of Bobcaygeon, Ontario, he used to hang around the local hotel as a schoolboy, eagerly watching the smart traveling salesmen. When he became a salesman himself...
...Plump and pink Queen Wilhelmina, whose nose grew red as she went sleigh-riding in Switzerland last week, pronounced a solemn Speech from the Throne before she left The Hague. Mindful of her Dutch East Indies, in which live 60,000,000 of Her Majesty's 69,000,000 subjects, she gave them a new and more dignified name: Netherlands India...