Word: plumpness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...longer ago than 1938, "Market Street" had ladled out a plump $100 per division to knock out old Gifford Pinchot's third try at the Governorship; that fall, when Republican Arthur Horace (Breaker Boy) James tossed the Little New Deal of Governor George H. Earle III out of Harrisburg, Republican committeemen carried rolls of at least $100 per division. And in 1939's mayoralty fight, an alleged cascade of currency from the offices of G. 0. P. City Chairman Jay Cooke won the election between 4 and 6 p.m. with a $100-per-division allotment...
...ground that he had bought the election, although not many Senators could refute Mr. Vare's understandably angry argument that many of their elections had cost more per vote, more per capita, and more per voting district than his. It was Bill Vare's plump for Herbert Hoover in 1928 that nominated the Great Engineer at Kansas City...
...first time in her pious life, plump Princess Juliana turned up at a Sunday football game in Amsterdam last week-to show her nervous countrymen how to be calm in a crisis. To show that the crisis was passing, the Army ordered that monthly four-day leaves be resumed after two weeks of complete mobilization...
...Plump, self-conscious District Attorney Claud L. Boyd did not like the case a bit. Though the seven indictments were returned last autumn, he announced that the State's case was not yet prepared, last week got a postponement till next September. It was freely predicted that the trial would never be held...
...camera reveals in the still life of the room-Rebecca's ash tray still heaped with cigarette stubs, the over-plump cushions of her flowered couch-the real life of the woman which her husband is revealing for the first time to another person. As Olivier pauses, the cobwebbed telephone shrills like a police siren in the silence; scene and story reach their star-shell denouement...