Word: plumpness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Jimmy's Janet. To the harried Mayor's support last week went his wife, Janet Allen Walker, plump, double-chinned & fun-loving. Unlike Alfred Emanuel Smith and his Katie, Jimmy Walker and his Janet are not inseparable companions and mates. Nevertheless, at her Miami Beach, Fla. home where she has been since December, Mrs. Walker made known that she was going back to New York? though she wasn't sure exactly when?"to stand by Jim and our guns...
...voters took his promises at a discount because his own record was that of a routine politician who had risen to the top of his party. When Thompson assailed him as "that pushcart peddler," he promptly organized a parade of pushcart peddlers who vowed to vote for him. Plump and precise, bespectacled and benevolent, he kept repeating: "Chicago needs a business man for Mayor. . . . Take the circus from City Hall. . . . Chase away the grafters. . . . Bring honesty back into the Government. . . . Cut out its graft. . . . Stop the log-rolling...
Born in Massachusetts 41 years ago, Mr. Joslin has a round, solemn face, a friendly manner, a figure as plump as Mr. Akerson's. His outlook on government is serious, heavy. Married, father of two sons, he gets fun out of tending a small but elaborate flower garden behind his Chevy Chase home. When President Hoover returns from his Caribbean cruise Mr. Joslin will retire from the Colorado Building's so-called "Brain Trust"* to begin his White House duties...
...trip across the continent to vote at his Palo Alto home?a formality new to the Republican candidate. There he received the returns which, by the greatest electoral college majority in U. S. history, transformed Nominee Hoover into President-elect Hoover. Tears of joy and gladness coursed down his plump cheeks under the California stars. Next came the South American goodwill trip, a prelude of grandeur during which Mr. Hoover tasted the sweets of sovereignty. Back in the U. S. he busied himself with Cabinet carpentry in Florida, fidgeted impatiently. And then that cold, rainy March...
...August 1929 the crowds at the National Air Races in Cleveland tittered with amused wonderment to see a winged windmill plump itself down like a weary old hen in midfield. Since then the U. S. public has known, more or less vaguely, that the weird machine was an autogiro; that it was supposed to rise almost vertically, descend slowly and vertically; that it was undergoing some sort of experiments at the hands of its inventor, Senor Juan de la Cierva and its U. S. promoter, Harold F. Pitcairn, manufacturer of airplanes. But it was still a strange and dubious invention...