Word: plumpness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Riviera sun, snapped open. A bustle of servants and bodyguards on the second floor of Cannes' Carlton Hotel proclaimed the fact that His Majesty was awake. Shortly afterwards, a fat man with a prematurely balding head and a rakish hussar's mustache, appeared on the hotel terrace, plumped his 225 pounds into a wicker chair and ordered a Coca-Cola. He wore the standard summer garb of the well-dressed Riviera yachtsman-grey flannel slacks, navy blue jacket and white yachting cap. The plump, darkly pretty young woman who accompanied him wore a similar costume. For 15 minutes...
Colonel Dave Barrett, now a U.S. military attaché in Formosa, is an old China hand known for his plump amiability and his fluency in Mandarin. In 20 years of service in China, he saw the warlords fade, the Japs come & go, the Nationalists driven before the Communists. None of these great events startled easygoing Dave Barrett more than a shrill accusation by Radio Peking last week. Colonel Barrett, said Red China's government, is the ringleader of an "American imperialist" plot to murder Chairman Mao Tse-tung and other high Chinese comrades...
After almost five months in Britain, Cinemactress Judy Garland arrived in Manhattan chubbier by several pounds. Said she: "Right now I'm overdoing this pleasingly plump business. But I don't care. I never felt better in my life. Special dieting to knock off the poundage in a hurry for a picture is really murder. That's what was wrong with me early this year when I had a nervous breakdown. And for that reason I certainly sympathize with people like Mario Lanza. This time I'm going to take diet and reducing much slower...
People in Paris were coming down with something like parrot fevert-but they had not caught it from parrots. Dr. Pierre Lepine, the Pasteur Institute's virus expert, spent two years tracking down the culprit. Last week he had it: the plump Parisian pigeon...
...while, the young school barely managed to stay alive. But soon celebrities from overseas began to come to its rescue. Sir Richard Steele sent complete files of the Tatler and Spectator, and Sir Isaac Newton sent a copy of his Principia. Finally, a plump, periwigged gentleman named Elihu Yale, a retired East India merchant and a former governor in Madras, sent the most substantial gift of all: ?562 worth of goods...