Word: plumpness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Burden of Shame. Before the day was out, the plump, myopic Son of Heaven called a trusted Court attendant and Elder Statesman, aging (77) Admiral Baron Kantaro Suzuki, President of the Privy Council, to form a new Government. On the stooped shoulders of this wrinkled old courtier might well rest the shameful bur den of leading Japan to surrender...
Fighter pilots saw concealed flak positions open up on the plump transports; one ship exploded in the air, others tumbled and burned. The fighters, in rocket-firing P47 Thunderbolts, cursed and went in on the deck, taking desperate chances to silence the enemy ack-ack. One low-flying pilot had to weave his plane through a group of parachuting soldiers. He launched rockets against a flak emplacement, looked up and saw a paratrooper directly in front...
Elsa Maxwell, plump, professional party-planner turned columnist, was tickled when Photographer Leora Thompson assured her that she had an "exuberant"-looking leg. She exulted: "Really, it's not so bad. There may be a lot more of it than necessary, but. . . I don't know-any fat women with legs that can compare with mine...
Married. Technical Sergeant Charles E. ("Commando") Kelly, 24, rugged, rusty-haired "one man army," Congressional Medal of Honor winner (for killing 40 Nazis with assorted weapons in a single engagement); and plump brunette May Frances Boish, 19, whom he met last year when their home town Pittsburgh celebrated his homecoming; in Phenix City...
Frances Alda, plump, redhaired, old-time Metropolitan Opera diva who retired in 1929, was charged in Manhattan's Yorkville Court with swiping 300 red ration points from her ex-cook, Mrs. Barbara Neill. Cook Neill, who worked only one month for Mme. Alda, claimed that she had handed over her ration books to her employer when she started, got back the books minus 300 points (a normal six-months' supply) when she was dismissed. Mme. Alda's attorney called the charges "fantastic," declared: "Even if Mme. Alda could settle this case for $50, she would spend thousands...