Word: plumpness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When Victoria came onstage in Carnegie Hall, plump but pretty in a black gown and pearls, she got welcoming applause befitting an established favorite. It was a situation almost overripe for a letdown, but Soprano de los Angeles lived up to her notices...
Arthur John Arberry, Cambridge University professor of Arabic and authority on Persian, is a plump and hearty gentleman with a stiff black mustache who long ago made up his mind about one thing. "Every scholar of Persian," he once wrote, "firmly resolves, quite early in his career, that whatever other temptation he may yield to in the course of his alluring adventures, he will never be drawn into the Omar Khayyám controversy . . ." By last week, Professor Arthur Arberry, 45, had found himself not only drawn into the controversy, but practically the center...
...sound trucks bellowed over the plump pumpkins and the crookneck squash of country fairs, at street corners where the fallen leaves gathered in the gutters. Campaigners' voices rasped hoarsely in the crisp autumn air, and high-school bands thumped and oompahed down main streets to flag-draped platforms. The Great American Game of Politics was in full swing...
World Citizen Garry Davis, who renounced his citizenship in 1948 to plump for a world without boundaries, decided that he wanted to be a U.S. citizen after all. Back from Haiti where he had gone in protest against "American intervention in Korea," he penned a plea to the U.S. Attorney General asking if his U.S. birth and war record would be enough "to bypass the time usually required by an immigrant to become a citizen...
...eight British films turned out since 1945 under their Individual Pictures trademark, plump, chipper Sidney Gilliat, 42, and quiet, precise Frank Launder, 43, have not yet been caught with a dud. Why do their pictures always make a tidy profit? Launder, a onetime repertory actor, and Gilliat, who thought he would be a journalist, point significantly to the fact that they have always been able to make pictures without too much front-office bossing...