Word: plumpness
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Purring forth along the Hillsborough road, on a moonless night, the Ducal motor was suddenly hailed by a plump, determined wench who had planted herself and a huge basket of eggs so strategically in the road that to circumvent either was impossible. Resolute, she wrenched open the limousine's door and clambered in, clutching her basket, slumping down cheerily beside His Grace, who is four times a baron, twice a marquis, twice a viscount, as well as being Earl and Duke of Abercorn. Wench and Duke rode on into Belfast, jointly steadying the eggs...
Three weeks ago, a plump, pretty, motherly lady of some 50 summers, was taken ill on her way from Albany, N. Y. to an evening party in Manhattan. Her husband. Governor Alfred Emanuel Smith of New York, hurried her to a hospital. "Appendicitis," said the doctors, and operated...
Molnar. The sleepy celebrity, the one with a monocle on the right side of his plump face, the self indulgent one who sat silent at formal dinners but roistered about Manhattan with his friends?that one was Ferenc Molnar...
...years the right to export capital and invest it abroad has been denied to Frenchmen by the law of April 3, 1918. Evasions, numerous, have always been severely punished when detected. Last week this intolerable, emergency damaging of the flow of capital was ended by plump, jovial President Gaston Doumergue who signed a decree lifting the capital embargo...
Like a spry cock sparrow followed by two plump robins there hopped off the steamer Avelona, at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, last week, David Lloyd George, followed by his wife Dame Margaret, and their daughter Megan...