Word: plumpness
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...brilliant maroon felt pillow with the seal of the Aeronautics Branch (a beacon over which flies the original Wright Brothers' plane) on one side; on the other the name of Clarence M. Young in orange letters. The pillow was the gift and particular pride of Col. Young's pilot, plump John Cable. In one or another of the Department's planes the Colonel still puts in enough hours of actual piloting to keep his transport license and reserve commission active...
...Manhattan, while trying to escape from jail disguised as a visiting church worker, Mrs. Jennie Goldstein, plump, fur-coated, wearing horn-rimmed spectacles and with prayer books and a bundle of religious tracts tucked under her arm, paused and twittered to Head Keeper Edward A. Glennon, "It's a very fine day the good Lord has given us, isn't it?" "A fine day, indeed!" roared Head Keeper Glennon as Mrs. Goldstein turned to leave by the prisoners' entrance instead of the visitors', and clapped her back in her cell...
Widow MacDougall is now 65, grey, pretty. She is still short, plump, neat and clean. Though frugal (waitresses in her Grand Central restaurant pay $10 a week for their jobs), she lives on swank Park Avenue. Her daughter Gladys married Harry Montrose Graham two years ago. Son Allan, 37, has had complete charge of the coffee business for several years (he put it in cans), is the financial brains of the organization. He is smallish, neat, curly-mustached, rides to hounds with the Spring Valley Harriers near his home at Convent, N. J. But Mrs. MacDougall is still the decorative...
...Camilla Ratti, sister and nearest relative to the Pope, and Marchesa Maria Luisa Persichetti-Ugolini, the Pope's favorite niece, who named her daughter Maria Rio Pia in her uncle's honor. Bustling about was Monsignor Camillo Caccia-Dominioni, Master of the Papal Household, favorite secretary of Pius XI. Plump, jolly, much-loved for his virtues, Master Caccia-Dominioni arranges papal audiences, is present at all functions. Proudly he escorted Mussolini upstairs, to the Pope's private library. There Il Duce knelt solemnly, kissed not the toe but the Ring of the Fisherman. They chatted 55 minutes, which was considered...
Bidding on the Tikytt psalter began at $20,000 and rose rapidly to $61,000, for which it was bought by plump little Dr. Abraham S. Wolf Rosenbach of Philadelphia, who usually manages to skim off the cream, of most U. S. book auctions...