Word: plumpness
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...good for one day only. Every syllable of the grim proceedings flashes over all the Russias by radio broadcast. Cinema cameras whir at intervals. Flashlight powders occasionally blaze and boom. Fifty Russian and Asiatic correspondents keep 28 telegraph lines busy. Delegations of spectators pour in, daily, from provincial Soviets, plump down on especially reserved benches and marvel at their surroundings...
Farrell and Jones were left with 36 more holes to play to settle the tie. Both showed the strain of the three days' play in their faces but not in their games. Jones, plump and thoughtful, his cowlick slicing over his eyebrow, stalked after his ball in silence while Farrell, lean and dark, walked with a gloomy air beside him. As beautiful, as effective as ever was Jones's effortless, mechanically perfect game; his drives were as long as ever, his putts as straight and his score-144-identical with that which had put him ahead...
...Before plump Mr. Hoover alone, a typical big business choice, the Houston Papists could at least evince an impudent sanguinity even if they did not feel it. But when he is backed by the bristing Senator Curtis and the latter's farm states lulled by pious Republican promises, the only Democratic hope lies in a decided stand for repealment of the Prohibition Act. And since the Democratic party does not even possess a Nicholas Murray Butler to table, this is equivalent to no hope...
Ambassadors Houghton (medium height, plump cheeks) and Herrick (tall, grizzled) were due to appear, having come home from their posts in England and France, respectively, to partake in the deliberations of the party from whom they hold their portfolios. Ambassador Morrow was home from Mexico, too, but not expected in Kansas City. Mr. Morrow did his conferring last week in Washington with President Coolidge, then retired from the public scene...
When the Council of the League of Nations sat down to its June session in Geneva, last week, two famed faces were absent. One is nude, plump, confident; the other shaggily mustached, and lined with weary wrinkles. As everyone knows, these are respectively the faces of German Foreign Minister Dr. Gustav Stresemann and French Foreign Minister Aristide Briand. Both are slowly convalescing from illness...