Word: plumpness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...diplomatic round of palm wine and a furious round of tribal dances, the All-Stars took their turn. Africans received the jazz coolly until Royal Garden Blues stirred them up, and soon 30-odd tribesmen were doing jivey steps to the riffs. "Did you see that little old plump woman?" said Louis later. "When she danced, man, she was just like toy mother Mary...
...sitting at home one day." said plump, dimple-cheeked Susan Freiberg, "and all at once I had an idea for a tune...
Childe Hassam (1859-1935) began work as a magazine illustrator and made a good living at it. Three years in Paris opened his eyes to impressionism, and by 1889, when he came home to apply its viewpoint to the American scene, Americans were almost ready to accept the results. Plump, pink and tweedy, Hassam painted pictures that were pretty yet robust, like a small brass band playing in the park...
Everyone who knew her had to admire plump, kindly Minnie Mangum of Norfolk, Va. Generous to a fault. Miss Minnie showered her friends with expensive presents and gave openhandedly to charity. What made Minnie's generosity all the more admirable was that since early girlhood she had worked hard to support her invalid mother and blind sister...
Telecasts begin at 7 p.m., with a 20-minute children's program featuring a plump woman in a peasant dress who sits in a chair telling a fairy story. Despite the dull camerawork, says Schorr, "she was a good actress and told the story warmly and simply." Next, in Schorr's monitoring, came an excerpt from a play called Red Clouds. The plot: a young man is torn between the revolutionary fervor of 1905 and the pious exhortations of his father, an Orthodox priest; he breaks away from the "evil influence of religion," curses his father, goes...