Word: plumpness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...article by your youthful editor in TIME [July 10] entitled "The Face of the G.O.P.," referring to me as a "plump, little old man" who was symbolic of the fact that "the old men of the party no longer had the power," is in no sense resented...
...Plump, pink-cheeked Mme. Chideu runs a little grocery store near the Cherbourg water front. Housewives who come in for fruit, milk, butter and vegetables love to gossip with the patronne over anything & everything, from the latest grapevine news to the capers of les americains. Last week TIME Correspondent William Walton walked into Mme. Chideu's shop. He asked her and some of her customers how things were going, came away with a human report on Allied fiscal policy in one corner of France...
Stinky, on the screen, becomes Pinky (Ted Donaldson), a plump little boy who, for all his talents, looks too much like a child actor. Curley does all his workouts in a shoe box, and though dozens of his screen colleagues watch him constantly, the tantalized audience never gets a gander. The agent (Cary Grant) is no pathetic shoe-stringer. He is a dapper Broadway impresario in danger of losing his theater. When he loses it, Cary is solaced by meeting Pinky's lush sister (Janet Blair). His slit-pussed sidekick (James Gleason), is perhaps the best member...
...incident was symbolic: a plump little old man, ex-Senator Daniel Hastings of Delaware who has served his Party for 15 years in many high positions, sat below the press box, glumly chewing a cigar, glumly watching the new party bigwigs, Dewey, Warren, Saltonstall, Dwight Griswold, et al. A young blond usherette, with a pageboy bob, strode up to him, said: "Hey, bub, you can't sit here!" Glumly he wandered off, looking for a friendly face, for a Republican who remembered...
...Union of South Africa, home of 2,000,000 dominant whites and 8,000,000 submerged blacks, a remarkable thing had come to pass. Through their elected white representatives in Parliament (seven out of 153 M.P.s), the blacks had chosen as their spokesman a plump, greying, social crusader, Mrs. Violet Margaret Livingstone Ballinger...