Word: plumpness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...noon Frank Anderson called a halt. His shirt and overalls were mushy with sweat, dust and chaff. At the house plump, jolly Zula Anderson had everything on the table the minute the men finished at the back-porch sink-fried chicken, mashed potatoes, gravy, corn, tomatoes, beets, bread & butter, milk, iced...
Most everyone else who saw Picasso's latest show would as soon demand a thunderstorm without clouds or rain as a Picasso without smudges or spots. The faithful raved over a pinheaded, plump-breasted, dirty-white thing astride a horned and half-destroyed reddish-brown thing. Entitled The Rape of Europa, it was dated June 5, 1946. Asked one impious art-lover: "Between what hours did he paint it?" It seemed to have something to do with the Greek myth in which Zeus turned himself into a bull to carry off a pretty girl named Europa on his back...
...Poised & Plump. She has a superb complexion; everyone notices it right away. She moves with the unself-conscious ease of a person who knows she is alone in a room and won't be disturbed. When someone is talking to her, she concentrates completely on what he is saying, despite any & all distractions. During all the time I watched her the Queen maintained a remarkable expression on her face-as if this was an experience she had been awaiting months, and it had turned out better than she hoped...
...always understood that the Queen photographed poorly, and that she was not nearly as plump as she appears in pictures. This is not so. The Queen has a very round figure with the small ankles and slim lower legs of a woman who would rather eat than bother with her weight. I feel safe in saying that her wardrobe is unimaginative. I'll just add that she avoids a very definite double chin by holding her head well...
...discernment and honesty, Dean J. A. Bonilla Atiles of the University of Santo Domingo's law school refused to plump for Dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo's reelection...