Word: plumps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...some reason we invariably find little girls much more demure than little boys--especially when the little girl is just a plump cluster of rumpled blonde curls and two dimpled red cheeks...
...Congress costs $100,000. Entry fees total $218,000 ($5 apiece from each contestant for each event) of which $145,000 will be distributed as prizes. Last week in the 212th Coast Artillery Armory, equipped with banners, grandstands, 28 brand-new alleys and a midway, New York's plump little Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia bowled the first ball. It rolled ignominiously into the gutter and Congress was in session...
...Podestá Guido Pesenti sat Respighi's plump, 43-year-old widow. Donna Elsa could scarcely see the stage for tears. When the performance ended, the audience roared its thanks to her, knowing that she had finished her husband's last work when he had to lay it down...
...present $500,000 educational campaign. Last year it distributed a four-reel sound film entitled The Beneficent Reprobate in which appeared no drooling drunks or starving children but a frog named Elmer who passed out in a solution of 5% alcohol. W.C.T.U.'s national president is clever, plump, 65-year-old Mrs. Ida B. Wise Smith. An astute politician and public agitator, Mrs. Smith clicks off such anti-liquor statistics as the following: Rejections of insurance applicants for "heavy indulgence" by Northwestern National Life Insurance Co. increased from 17.6% in the year ending April...
...they thought that the voices in the sickroom were not so loud. Someone even thought he heard laughter. Finally the door opened. Out came Michigan's Governor Frank Murphy, his red hair awry, his face haggard. The Department of Labor's conciliator, James Francis Dewey, followed, his plump jowls sagging with fatigue. General Motors' Lawyer-Vice President John Thomas Smith emerged smiling. Newshawks trooped after them to the elevator, up to the presidential suite on the twelfth floor. Governor Murphy sat down at a desk and faced the press...