Word: plumpness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This is "VillaLobos Week"-according to the U.S. League of Composers, which is celebrating the first North American visit of South America's best-known composer: plump, talkative, 57-year-old Heitor Villa-Lobos. It is also the bouncy Brazilian's second week of Manhattan performances and the halfway point in his U.S. schedule of guest-conducting (Los Angeles' Janssen Symphony, Manhattan's Philharmonic, Stokowski's New York City Symphony, the Boston Symphony...
...item wholesalers, who thrive in times of famine, were the only happy men. They took orders as they came, but made no delivery promises. The quality of some of the items spoke sadly for U.S. taste, and proved again that dollars often burn hottest in unfamiliar pockets. Said one plump buyer, clutching a dismal little religious diorama made of shells and priced to retail at $6: "Aren't they awful? But they'll sell." Other bestsellers...
Onto the Mahroussa's immaculate deck stalked the eldest of Ibn Saud's 40 sons, a dozen of his dignitaries. King Farouk inclined his plump person in a cordial bow. Then they all went ashore, where a city of silken tents had sprung up overnight. For the first time ever, massive, majestic Ibn Saud, absolute ruler of the biggest, near-medieval Arab state, and King Farouk, ruler of the wealthiest, most progressive Arab state, exchanged the traditional obeisances of greeting. The two sovereigns had long been rivals for the leadership of still unborn Pan-Arabia...
...family on which Dr. Richardson reports in most detail included Martin Q, fortyish, "a little man with a pinched expression and a furtive look" who averaged under $20 a week from WPA or Home Relief, his plump, aggressive, somewhat stupid wife, their daughters Agnes, 19, and Catherine...
First up was plump, amiable Turner Catledge, 43. Generally considered a better reporter than editor, he gave up a reporter's "dream job" as roving political correspondent for the Times, moved in as assistant to Managing Editor Edwin L. James. Born in Mississippi and brought up there, journalistically, on a handset weekly paper, Catledge has been a Timesman since 1927, except for a brief, unfortunate period as chief correspondent, then editor-in-chief of the Chicago Sun during its uncertain infancy...