Word: plumpness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Fustest & Mostest. But MacConnell and his students did not stop with recommendations: in some towns they undertook to persuade citizens to vote for school bond issues. They arranged radio interviews, hired airplanes, snapped aerial pictures of likely school sites. In Campbell, they persuaded local merchants to plump for a school bond issue in special...
Though it gives human, often humorous, color to the grim story, the film never compromises its chilling realism with the conventions of movie fiction. The heroine (Sheila Manahan) is unglamorously plump and dowdy; the young hero (Hugh Cross) wears a rumpled, ill-fitting suit; the Scotland Yard superintendent (Andre Morell) is a sternly workmanlike type with no quaint traits. The most likable character is a bighearted, middle-aged floozy (Olive Sloane) who shelters the professor. But the real heroine of Seven Days is London, with its streets, landmarks and citizens. The city gives a terrifyingly good performance...
Both brothers are widowers; both live only for the A & P. But there the similarity ends. John is thin, George is plump. John is bold and expansive, George cautious and conservative. John is gregarious and full of quips, George shy and sobersided. John stands and talks; George sits and listens. Plain and unpretentious George, in his drab black suit, sedate tie and stiff collar, could easily be taken for a retired motorman dressed up for Sunday...
...opened new red-fronted stores in surrounding towns, started wagon routes to sell tea & spices to farm wives, changed the company's name to the Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. Partner Gilman soon sold out and retired on his profits, but Hartford plugged on. By 1880, when his plump, 16-year-old son George quit school to become his cashier, he had 100 stores...
Last week, residents of Lowell House and Dunster House were surprised to notice cats stalking about the dining halls at dinner time. One was a black tabby cat with a white spot on its chest, which seemed lean at the beginning of the week, grew sleek and plump towards the weekend, and was seen no more thereafter...