Word: plumpness
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...last week, did not sleep in the wicked, noisy ville lumineuse. She stopped at no hotel as other visiting royalties do. (Edward of Wales or Gustav of Sweden would have gone to the Hotel Meuricc. Indian potentates incline to the Ritz.) Accompanied by Crown Princess Juliana, but not by plump Prince Henry, Her Majesty took up brief residence in a chateau outside Paris in the Valley of Chevreuse. She and her daughter had come to Paris as a royal duty: they must inspect the Dutch East Indies exhibit at the French Colonial Exposition (TIME, May 11). Thoroughly last week they...
Crash, crash! went two windows in the U. S. consulate at Dresden. Plump fell a bottle on the consulate's floor. While young German Communists hooted and whistled outside, an American clerk picked up the bottle, found a note: ''We protest the execution of eight young Negro workers in Alabama. Down with American murder and imperialism! For the brotherhood of black and white young proletarians! An end to the bloody lynching of our Negro co-workers...
...Plump, chatty, irresponsible, Troubadour Downey is still addicted to expensive cars, large apartments and other luxuries precious to those who have learned? they may not keep them long, but he banks three quarters of his income, no longer has a chauffeur. He is proud that his appeal is not, like that of Rudy Vallee and other famed radio entertainers, based on vocal sexuality. It rests, rather, upon the fact that his high, clear voice broadcasts much more smoothly, more truly than voices which, louder and more pretentious, would easily be recognized as superior to his on a concert stage...
...ordered a round of drinks, beat and bit Mrs. Potocki and a companion, then charged the two women with running a disorderly establishment. The trial of another vice squad member ended last week with his acquittal. He was Walter V. Ambraz, who testified that Mrs. Rosa H. Ricchebuono, a plump French-Canadian woman who said she was the niece of a Canadian Bishop, had beckoned to him from her window. Mrs. Ricchebuono's story was that she was waving good-bye to her husband...
...wife of the Japanese Ambassador, plump, cheerful Mme Matsudaira; the wife of the Chinese Minister, thin, nervous Mme Sze; and the wife of the U. S. Ambassador, pale, placid Mrs. Dawes, each presented her daughter last week to King George & Queen Mary...