Word: plumpness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...look at Eugene Berman, a bald, plump, cheerful little man, you would never guess that his paintings are meticulously composed glimpses of ruin, misery and decay. A Thomas Traddles among painters, he pictures philosophers asleep under Paris bridges and ragged princes mooning among the ruins of their family palaces; his work fairly groans with heartache. But Berman himself, whose painted gloom has earned him a solid reputation throughout Europe, has claimed to be "divinely happy" ("It's just that I enjoy melancholy things...
Road to Amman. Plump, turbaned little King Abdullah of Trans-Jordan was indeed the center of Arab hopes. The danger of defeat, which sent Arab refugees scuttling from Palestine, sent Arab politicians to Abdullah in Amman. Cabled TIME Correspondent Eric Gibbs after a visit last week: "Amman has become an Oriental boom town, crowded by Arab politicians, foreign diplomats and correspondents paying exorbitant prices to sleep four in a room in the Philadelphia Hotel. The streets are crowded with Arab Legionnaires in spiked helmets with Beau Geste backflaps, Bedouins in rags of lacelike complexity, donkeys, camels, jeeps, trucks, U.S. cars...
...Christian Democrats, confident of victory, found other portents. In Formia, near Naples, plump, moist-eyed Elvira Wangrillo told how a Communist had joined a pilgrimage to the sanctuary of Itri where, confronted with the picture of the Madonna, he fell to his knees, struck dumb. "He has been that way ever since," related Elvira, "the doctors say it's a miracle...
...Washington Times-Herald's Inquiring Photographer asked several plump women about their reaction to the Too Fat Polka. Samples: 1) "I have such a little squirt of a husband someone has to have some heft around the house." 2) "I'm just well rounded...
Blood & Baldness. Blood was also on the mind of Anthropologist C. Wesley Dupertuis of Presbyterian Hospital, New York City. He measured the blood volume of 53 medical students (by injecting dye into their veins) and compared it with their general body-build. The plump, rounded subjects (endomorphs) and the slender, delicate ones (ectomorphs) had less blood compared to weight than the mesomorphs, or husky, athletic types. Conclusion: if you have lots of muscle, you probably have lots of blood...