Word: plumps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Practical politics in Los Angeles have produced no more colorful figure than plump, blonde Mrs. Helen (''Queen Helen") Werner, who was an apple-cheeked Tennessee mountain girl when she went West to make good. She has lived in Los Angeles since 1920 when she married Erwin P. ("Pete") Werner, an indifferently successful lawyer, who she determined would someday be Governor. As she pushed her husband onward and upward, Queen Helen became adept at the solid kind of political maneuvering that women master infrequently. In 1929, after she had managed Pete Werner's successful campaign for city attorney...
...Last week Bennett Clark, now a U. S. Senator, was prematurely boomed for the 1940 Democratic Presidential nomination by Boss Tom Pendergast. By way of modest acknowledgment, the plump young Senator related an anecdote of his late great father and that statesman's predecessor as Speaker of the House. Thomas B. ("Tsar") Reed. When Speaker Reed was contesting with William McKinley for the GOPresidential nomination in 1896, Congressman Clark met him one day, asked: "Mr. Speaker, are you going to get the nomination?" Replied Reed: "Why, Champ, I think they might go farther and fare worse, and I think...
...flowing Greek gown. Once when Mischa Levitzki was performing in Carnegie Hall, a mouse crept close to the piano, sat up when the pianist played softly, scuttled off when he played loudly, returned for the pianissimi, required four men to catch him. Performing last week in, St. Louis, plump French Pianist Robert Casadesus added a lively chapter to the chronicle of musical mischances...
...last year (TIME, Nov. 4, 1935), the U. S. rang with his success. It was the first time San Franciscans had heard the great tetralogy in years, the third time they had ever heard it. Faces fell when the directors announced that Bodanzky would not return this season, that plump, pleasant Fritz Reiner would succeed him. Know-it-alls began to gossip that Reiner planned to pare down expenses and substitute cheaper instruments for the prescribed tub en quartet, the indispensable bass trumpet. In London last summer Reiner quietly persuaded Philadelphia's Mrs. Curtis Bok to lend him four...
...came down with jaundice, ran out of money, made his way with great difficulty to Guayaquil only to find the port quarantined with bubonic plague. There the innocent soldier of mis fortune hit a real romantic adventure. Late at night he picked up a mysterious Chilean girl, a little plump and strangely absentminded, but pretty. He took her to his hotel. He ran out to get something to drink, found her in bed, moaning piteously when he returned. The plague! he thought. But when he asked, "What's the matter?" her reply was: "I'm having a baby...