Word: plumps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...most highly publicized execution in months and a banner opportunity for Britain's No. 1 Anti-Capital-Punishment Crusader, plump Mrs. Violet Van der Elst. The widow of a Belgian shaving-cream tycoon (Shavex), her jail-gate antics before the hanging of British murderers used to fill British authorities with quiet amusement but they do so no longer. With her Shavex-colored limousine, sound trucks blaring hymns, hired sandwich men and airplanes scattering leaflets, "Sweet Violet," as the penny press calls her, can be counted upon to draw large crowds of gawpers who mill about, tie up traffic...
George Oliver May is a plump, urbane, British-born gentleman who winters in Manhattan and summers in Southport, Conn., collects old English silver, dislikes publicity, has a daughter married to Barron Collier Jr. and is one of the world's foremost authorities on corporate finance and taxation. In Manhattan last week Mr. May attended a dinner celebrating his silver jubilee as senior partner of the potent accounting firm of Price, Waterhouse & Co. In Washington last week Mr. May, who was a Wartime adviser at the Treasury Department, appeared before the Senate Finance Committee as a disinterested citizen, presented...
...were squabbling over a tricycle. Out on the big, semicircular front porch, with its comfortable swing, blue wicker chairs and table on which were lying a copy of Western Story and a cover-less May issue of Cosmopolitan, the correspondent played with the children under the eye of their plump nurse, Mrs. McCue...
There was dignified, plump, white-haired Floretta D. McCutcheon, whose shrewd pressagent has built her up into the No. 1 female exhibition bowler. There was robust Marie Warmbier who, with an average of nearly 200 in three years of exhibition bowling, did poorly by sacrificing accuracy for speed in the Omaha tournament. There was freckled Mary Jane ("Little Marie") Huber, 15-year-old schoolgirl, a hopeless cripple until she was 10, who handled the ball like a grape fruit, outscored her coach, Marie Warmbier. Pretty, buxom Ella Burmeister, a grocery clerk, so excited one male spectator with her nine-game...
...Short, plump, bespectacled Instructor Weller brooded over his misfortune. One morning last week he dismissed his class, stepped into the office of his immediate superior, Chairman Harry Kurz of the Department of Romance Languages. Instructor Weller knew that last month Dr. Kurz had failed to recommend him for reappointment. At his baldish. heavy-featured superior John Weller glared, pulled a revolver, shouted: "I'm going to kill you!" Dr. Kurz leaped up, ran from his office. Instructor Weller fired at him, missed. When Dr. Kurz slipped in the corridor, Instructor Weller stood over him, fired again...