Word: plumpness
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These grandiloquent words last week rolled from the tongue of Willis Jerome Ballinger, a plump onetime editorial writer who is now director of studies for the Federal Trade Commission. Speaker Ballinger, who was once an amateur acrobat, was acting as ringmaster as FTC took over for two weeks the hearings of the Temporary National Economic (Monopoly) Investigation...
...ladies, elaborately dressed in ancient, figured costumes, the Emperor saw Grand Master of Rituals of the Imperial Household Prince Kimitern Sanjo place the belt before the Imperial shrine and inform the Imperial ancestors of the coming event. Then, with the assistance of her ladies, it was wrapped around the plump little Empress. The child, seventh conceived by the Empress, is expected in mid-February...
...Golden Wedding, which brings the dispersed clan together. 2) The halting but hearty toast to that "dear octopus," the Family. 3) The nursery, full of memories, and the old teddy bear, now minus an arm. 4) The old nanny, who has been with the family 47 years. 5) The plump married daughter. 6) The slim single daughter. 7) The angular eccentric daughter. 8) The red-faced son-in-law, all teeth, plus fours and fatuousness. 9) The attractive unmarried son. 10) The mousy but pretty companion, in love with...
...grand jury refuses to indict Louis Greenfield, it will add one more brick to the foundation of unwritten law condoning mercy killings. It will also strengthen the case of euthanasia advocates, headed by Manhattan's famed Neurologist Foster Kennedy. Euthanasiasts decry mercy killings by overwrought relatives, plump for a tightly written law which will set up impartial committees of physicians to examine hopeless invalids, recommend scientific extinction...
Back to Manhattan from the Pan-American Conference at Lima (TIME, Nov. 21, et seq.), where she was a U. S. delegate, went plump, soft-voiced Florence Kathryn Lewis, 27, daughter of John L. Lewis. Asked why she had quit Bryn Mawr to work for her father, she replied: "It wasn't so much a question of wanting to work with father, but of getting into the movement. . . . I've been arguing with him ever since I was two years...