Word: plumpness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Other Mexicans hope for loans, treaties and boundary changes from the President of the U.S. on his visit this week. Shy, plump Genaro Corona Morales, the legless bootblack of the presidential palace, just wants to shine Harry Truman's shoes...
...League of Nations days, scientists who visited Geneva knew her as a plump, black-eyed Russian physiologist named Lina Stern. She loved to putter in her laboratory all day and dance all night. A brilliant scientist, Lina was already a full professor (of physiological chemistry) at the University of Geneva. Friend of many a globe-trotting academician, she spoke fluent Russian, French and English. In 1925, fun-loving Physiologist Stern decided to go to Moscow, where, she said, she could pursue science in "a society built on scientific principles...
...said she was now going to divorce Porfirio Rubirosa (who used to be Dominican charge d'affaires in Vichy) to marry her third, Actor Pierre Louis. When Husband Porfirio paid her a visit, "I made known to him my intention . . ." said she. "He accepted like a gentle-man." Plump, greying Columnist Cornelius Vanderbilt Jr., 48, whose first, second and third marriages lasted, respectively", seven, three and six years, was now separated, after something less than six months, from beauteous Maria Feliza Pablos, 29-year-old grandniece of Mexico's late President Porfirio Diaz...
...plump, balding, kindly looking little man. He seemed dumfounded one day last October to find reporters outside his $35-a-month apartment in Queens. Was he Gerhart Eisler? Yes, yes, he was. Well-he had just been accused of being the No. I U.S. Communist, the Brain, the big tap on the wire to Moscow. How about...
...took part in open-air Shakespeare productions in Regent's Park, rising from walk-ons to lines like "Will you go hunt, milord?" There was one incandescent moment when Producer-Director Michael Powell noticed her in an agent's office (he remembers her as "a plump little dumpling who was obviously going places") and wrote a bit for her into Contraband. But the bit wound up on the cutting-room floor. So Deborah continued to live at a Y.W.C.A. on 35 shillings ($7) a week and spent most of her waking hours being turned out of producers...