Word: plumpness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sanders & Hanna. The Maine election upset every intelligent Republican except plump, easy-going Everett Sanders. Chairman of the Republican National Committee. His job is to direct a national contest which in its economic outlines and social undertones has been compared to the presidential campaign of 1896. In that September, William Jennings Bryan seemed to have the November election won hands down. That year Mark Hanna was the G. O. P. boss, than whom there never has been a smarter. His brilliantly ruthless management of the Republican campaign resulted in the election of William McKinley by some 600,000 votes...
...gift, an exciting 130-ft. granite figure of France Defiant shielding a wounded poilu, was "re-presented and unveiled" by U. S. Ambassador Walter Evans Edge on its hill top at Meaux on the Marne, 30 miles from Paris. Present were solemn, long-mustached President Albert Lebrun of France, plump, genial Premier Edouard Herriot and a French audience so militant that two mentions of Aristide Briand (the late, great French Peace Man) were vociferously booed. Schoolchildren and monuments were all but forgotten when Ambassador Edge, speaking presumably for the State Department, uttered what sounded like the first breath...
...shut-mouthed Senator, he rarely speaks on the floor. His words are tame, uninspiring. Though he is fairly attentive to debate, his colleagues are inclined to regard him as lazy in the chamber and committee. He is short, plump, with a round, bland face. His clothes are in quiet good taste. A Roman Catholic, he does not chum with other Southern Democrats, lives quietly in his Washington home on Mintwood Place...
...leader but political Washington took the Sacramento meeting with comparative equanimity. Of vastly greater concern to it was the national convention next week at Portland, Ore. of V. F. W.'s big young brother, the American Legion. Would the Legion, with its 936,000 members, also plump for immediate payment of the Bonus? It seemed certain to do so. Would wrathful legionaries also succeed in having the convention censure President Hoover for his treatment of the B. E. F? It seemed likely. The prospect sent cold chills up & down the spines of the Republican high command...
...amazed every one, were her onetime husband, Harold Fowler McCormick, their three living children, and her brother John. They had all come to her after years of an estrangement that was more of her making than theirs. A chief cause of the estrangement was also in devoted attendance?the plump little Swiss named Edwin D. Krenn with whom she had shared her last eleven years. Her brother John did not wait for the end. Itching painfully with an attack of shingles, he rejoined their father, John Davison Rockefeller, in the East. Long estranged too, and querulously jealous...