Word: plumpness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Rachele Mussolini, plump widow of the Duce. She was caught, along with her two youngest children, a jugful of jewelry and $120,000 cash, by partisans as she sought refuge in Switzerland. The Italians turned her over, as a harmless matron, to U.S. custody...
Hysteria from Moscow. Wanted as badly by the Spanish Government as Laval was wanted by France was a commuter who stepped off a plane in Paris last week. Plain, plump Dolores Ibarruri, 50, better known as La Pasionaria ("The Passion Flower") and Republican Spain's most uninhibited orator, was returning from Moscow for the first time since 1939. In Moscow she had been a member of the executive committee of the Communist International and heroine of a Soviet play, Salud España, which closed there because the leading lady "could only make Dolores interesting by making her hysterical...
...When plump, suave Joseph Washington Frazer became board chairman of Graham-Paige Motors Corp. eight months ago, he agreed to work for $1-a-year as part of the deal. This was a good deal for Graham. It was a far better deal for Joe Frazer. Last week, he told why: it enabled him to run an investment of $500 into over $1,000,000 in a little more than a year...
Last week, with 35 years and three months of work behind him, Father Schlueter retired from St. Luke's. Now white-haired and plump, he said that his age (67) and poor health had taken him into "the golden evening" of his life. He wanted to devote that evening to preaching missions and conducting retreats...
Married. Licia Albanese, 31, plump, handsome Metropolitan Opera soprano; and Joseph A. Gimma, 37, Wall Street stock broker, also from her native Bari, Italy (although they met in Manhattan in 1940); both for the first time; in Manhasset, L.I. The bride confessed that she was heeding the marriage-v.-career advice of an ex-opera star friend: "Our art is ... only temporary. All of a sudden one day it will be gone, and then you'll be sorry you didn't marry...