Word: plumpness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Congregational Church, and smuggled runaway slaves to Canada, but when Aaron befriended a runaway dog, the old man blew its head off with a shotgun. Aaron's girl was Nadine, a Catholic in the town of Adams, "a cotton-mill hand by day, but by evening a plump, wriggling, rolling, rejoicing, inviting, shoulder-shaking, cooing, laughing, black-eyed, black-haired, black-tempered young woman, who loved all that was bright and shoddy and loud, and loved all males...
...Never Forget . . ." One recent advertiser, Gerhardt Stumm, a plump, 31-year-old salesman, paid extra (minimum rate: about 50? a week) to get a picture of the Bavarian Alps in his "love-wanted" ad. It ran: "What fraulein would like to go on a two-week holiday to Bavaria by automobile, all expenses paid? Congenial and well-to-do gentleman seeks blonde at least five feet tall, not older than 23. She must not wear glasses." Stumm received 13 replies. He picked a slight (111-lb 5ft. 3-in.), dark-haired girl who wanted a holiday "awfully much." Later, Stumm...
...hissed maliciously and poets looked nervously the other way. Even pioneers, O'Casey discovered, fear public opinion; even democrats get a kick out of wearing striped pants and top hats; even noble esthetes enjoy walking with one foot in the gutter. Sean was shocked to find that stately, plump Oliver St. John Gogarty surreptitiously read whodunits ; that refined Lady Gregory reveled in Peg o' My Heart; that the great Yeats himself (an admirer of Zane Grey) was prepared to acclaim O'Casey as "the Irish Dostoevsky"-though O'Casey says he happened to know that Yeats...
Ruth Kerr is a blue-eyed, plump, soft-spoken woman who believes that the Lord will provide, but that a body ought to help Him all she can. She has increased the company's output elevenfold, partly by branching out into making jars for industrial canners. She walks around her plants in sensible shoes, and shuttles between factories by plane. Last year her company turned out more than 100 million jars, not far behind Muncie's Ball Brothers Co., the biggest U.S. canning-jar maker. Last week, in a nip & tuck battle with Ball...
Into Manhattan's Commodore Hotel last week trooped 4,000 bronzed and weatherbeaten farmers and farm administrators. Delegates of the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association, they were there to plump for more and bigger TVA-like projects. They wanted dams and power plants along the St. Lawrence, Missouri, and Columbia Rivers. They wanted the federal government, which had spent $375 million in rural electrification last year, to spend $450 million more this year...