Word: plumpness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...apples, meat, pickles, fish, carrots, potatoes, and perhaps more." It was probably the "perhaps" I didn't like. When I'd finished the cheeses, cold cuts, fishes, meats, and salads I returned to the smorgasbord table. I was scraping the bottom of the banana and cranberry bowl as a plump, seventyish woman in chet's attire bustled in to fill the dish. "Ya?" she asked. Ya, I smiled in reply...
Swallows in the Palace. At 32, King Norodom is plump, with thick black hair and a taste for black knitted ties. At his palace, an elegant blend of saffron and apricot coloring, King Norodom maintains a stable of thoroughbred horses, ceremonial elephants and a personal troupe of 50 dancing girls. While swallows dart freely above him. King Norodom will often play the saxophone, or conduct his own personal orchestra. He also writes movie scripts and produces them, occasionally playing the lead himself. Once he was great as a mad scientist, turning human victims into zombies at the prick...
...their feet of modest dimensions, whereas [the businessman's] calves are fat." The courting gentleman was also faced with courtly dilemmas. Asked, for example, which half of his lady he would prefer to have if she were divided in two at the waist, it is fruitless to plump piously for the top half (in hope of being rewarded with the lower) because the lady would only point out coldly "that the foundations of a building are more important than the upper storeys"-and leave him with no comeback but to mumble that "trees are praised for their upper parts...
...working women in London's Windmill Theater spend an extraordinary amount of time standing stock still. They have to. The Windmill is a burlesque house, and, by order of the Lord Chamberlain, nudes on the move are licentious; "living statues" are art. Among the Windmill's ladies, plump, brown-eyed Sheila Van Damm is a well-dressed exception. As the manager's daughter and part-time assistant, she is fully clothed during working hours, and even off duty she rarely stands still. Europe's champion woman motorist, Sheila spends every spare minute zipping across the countryside...
...issue of the play is a timeless one: country virtue vs. city materialism. A dignified but homespun Vermont woman suddenly gains as a living companion on her farm a plump, middle aged woman from Dedbam, Mass., who speaks through her nose and adores TV. The latter can hardly appreciate an old woman who reminisces about the boarded-up southwest corner of her house, just because it was once the parlor of her family. A conflict of values is inevitable...