Word: plumpness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Maria Unzue de Alvear was one of the few women listed in Argentina's Who's Who. A plump, little old lady who lived out her declining years in piety and good works, she gave an estimated 1,000,000 pesos ($112,000) a year to charity. She could well afford it; her family, which had given Argentina one of its most distinguished Presidents (Marcelo Torcuato de Alvear, 1922-28), owned a good million acres of rich grazing land...
...spoke calmly to tall, handsome Dr. Pier Luigi Guidotti, 32, the family physician of Italian Cinemaestro Roberto Rossellini. As she hung up, the doctor rushed over to drive her to Rome's most modern private clinic, the streamlined Villa Margherita. At 7 p.m., Ingrid gave birth to a plump, blue-eyed...
...darkened building in Boston's old North End, five men worked behind a wire screen, piling up plump sacks of U.S. currency with the mechanical indifference of butchers stacking daisy hams into a cooler. It was 7 o'clock-time for the Boston office of Brink's, Inc. to tot up the day's armored-truck collections and lock them in the vault for the night...
Quick Riches. Maggiorani's own story began in the spring of 1948, when his plump, eternally optimistic wife Giuseppina pushed him into the movie. With a snapshot of their ten-year-old son Enrico, she had answered a call at De Sica's office for a small boy. Maggiorani was in the snapshot too, and the movie people liked his looks for the role of Antonio. He balked. He had worked for 16 years as a machinist in the Breda steel works, and the job was good enough to support his wife and three children. "A steady...
Last summer, he seemed at last to have found what he was looking for when he married Charlotte Tiedemann, a plump, blonde Lieder-singer from Germany. But the new Duchess of Segovia also seemed to have given the duke new dynastic ambitions...