Word: plumpness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ordered a round of drinks, beat and bit Mrs. Potocki and a companion, then charged the two women with running a disorderly establishment. The trial of another vice squad member ended last week with his acquittal. He was Walter V. Ambraz, who testified that Mrs. Rosa H. Ricchebuono, a plump French-Canadian woman who said she was the niece of a Canadian Bishop, had beckoned to him from her window. Mrs. Ricchebuono's story was that she was waving good-bye to her husband...
...front row watching everything at once. For company she had Patsy, 7, daughter of Mrs. Frederick B. Butler. Mrs. Hoover's social secretary; Robert, 11, son of Hoover Secretary Joslin; John Marshall, 11, and Grace, children of Hoover Secretary Newton. Peggy Ann's father was there too, plump-cheeked and heavier, out for his first fun since his convalescence at Asheville. Because they were "circus-minded" Mrs. Hoover also took along her White House guests, Mrs. Stark McMullin of Palo Alto and Hugh Gibson, U. S. Ambassador to Belgium...
...wife of the Japanese Ambassador, plump, cheerful Mme Matsudaira; the wife of the Chinese Minister, thin, nervous Mme Sze; and the wife of the U. S. Ambassador, pale, placid Mrs. Dawes, each presented her daughter last week to King George & Queen Mary...
Japan's grappler was President Kenkichi Kagami of Nippon Yusen Kaisha, the Japanese Mail Steamship Co., largest, most luxurious operated by Asiatics. Bland, bespectacled, slightly plump, Mr. Kagami, an incessant smoker of U. S. cigarettes got his technical training in the Occident, sailed home to become an executive genius of Japan's No. 2 house of merchant princes, the Mitsubishi, which controls the N. Y. K. (No. 1 is the House of Mitsui...
...Paul Doumer, President of the Senate, and Brandy Distiller Jean ("***") Hennessy, candidates of the Opposition parties. M. Doumer was practically sure of the Senate's vote, was fairly sure of election against any one but Briand. As a candidate, *** Hennessy looked hopeless. Anti-Briand strategists talked seriously of drafting plump, smiling President Gaston Doumergue for a second term. "Le bon Gastounet" issued no I-do-not-choose but remained as coyly silent as any Coolidge...