Word: plumpness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...salesman) is away, are found out and have to explain their activities to their wives. To create atmosphere of the gay '90s, old wheezes are cracked, luxurious mustaches are twisted and two ancient steeds-Annie and Katie-gallop to a conflagration on a treadmill. The spectacle of funny, plump Victor Frederick Moore (Princess Charming, Hold Everything) in a fire chief's hat is worth the price of admission...
...much political tribulation. His personal friends urged one candidate while professional Republican politicians urged another for the appointment. Last week the deadlock was broken when the Hoover candidate withdrew and the President, with the goodwill of all sides, appointed a third man as U. S. District Attorney. He was plump, pink, bald, middle-aged George Zerden Medalie, who has a soft, husky voice and gentle brown eyes. Behind District Attorney Medalie's mild exterior, however, was a long and excellent record as a special prosecutor who knew how to send criminals to jail. But what the Senate wanted...
...Author. Joseph Hergesheimer, middleaged, plump, well-to-do, says writing "takes more vitality than ditch-digging. Much more." A slow starter, he worked at his stories for 14 years before he sold one. Now he is rated as one of the half-dozen leading U. S. authors. His carefully ornamented, politely civilized style usually cloaks a plot that might seem melodramatic in a more homespun dress. He lives in West Chester, Pa., is married, and is a good hand at collecting antiques. Other books: The Three Black Pennys, Java Head, Cytherea, The Bright Shawl, Linda Condon...
...former Prime Minister Andre Tardieu was completely whitewashed of any complicity in the swindles of Banker Albert Oustric it would be impossible for him to succeed to the prime ministry on the fall of the Steeg cabinet, a move which many French newspapers continued to urge last week. Nervy, plump-cheeked Albert Oustric started his career before the War as plain "Albert," a white-aproned waiter in a Toulouse cafe. A little influence kept him out of the trenches, got him a berth in a munitions factory. After the War he started speculating. Financiers doubted last week whether he ever...
...plump, broadfaced hausfrau sat quietly in the drawing room of the S. S. Belgenland as it lay in New York harbor last week. Although her eyes were laughing, she seldom glanced away from the frail-looking man with the tousled white hair and big, gentle brown eyes who sat beside her. The room was full of cameras, newsgatherers with vast questions on their tongues...