Word: plumpness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Matter of Fun. On a more down-to-earth level, Matisse was a pleasant, plump and proper bundle of paradoxes. He was finicky in his dress as he was daring in art; a pleasure-lover in his leisure time and a puritan in the studio. His pink face was bearded and benevolent; his slate blue eyes coolly attentive. He would discuss art lucidly and at length with all comers, punctuating his remarks by precise gestures of his small, square hands. Matisse knew his field as well, perhaps, as one man can. He tilled it conscientiously, and enlarged it courageously...
Above the spray of white gladioli appeared the plump, beaming face of the pastor, the smile serving as a minor sun to the shining flowers. For a moment he stood silently, "just loving the audience," as he once put it. Then the Rev. Dr. Norman Vincent Peale began to preach. He had preached the same theme many times before, not only from the pulpit but at countless business-club lunches, on TV, in newspaper columns, magazine pieces, and in a book (The Power of Positive Thinking) which has been at the top of the bestseller lists for almost two years...
...Iowa. Her mother had miscalculated and had confidently gone to the opera that evening. Elsa's birth cry rose mightily in the middle of a road company mezzo's big aria and overpowered an ill-fated Mignon. After that impressive debut, Elsa grew up poor, plain and plump. Her father was an insurance man and part-time drama critic. But she could play the piano and, to hear her tell it, attracted people "by the gaiety I radiate as naturally as I breathe." R.S.V.P. is Elsa's amusing, gossipy story of how the poor, plain, plump girl...
...terms with most of the Almanack de Gotha. But she refused to meet Mussolini, and her telegraphed reply to an invitation to dine with Farouk I of Egypt went straight to the point: "I do not associate with clowns, monkeys or corrupt gangsters." Every now and then the plain, plump little girl from Keokuk speaks up: "I like pretty girls, too, at parties; they're cheaper and more decorative than flowers." Elsa insists that all her partying was done just for good clean fun and loud laughter, and that neither money nor sex ever appealed to her. After...
...least once a month some investment expert asks plump, balding Robert E. Wilson, 61, chairman of Standard Oil of Indiana, the same irksome question: How will atomic power affect the oil industry? Last week Oilman Wilson* stood up before the third annual atomic energy convention of the National Industrial Conference Board to give the oil industry's answer. Said...