Word: plumps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bouguereau's plump-bottomed girls, vainly trying to get their shaggy, Pan-piping friend to romp with them, are depicted in academic, sugary fashion. But the draftsmanship is strong, the painted human flesh masterly. In its time the picture has traveled widely on boxes of Hoffman House perfectos, in a comic lithograph showing a bum leaning on the Hoffman bar, staring at the nymphs by their woodsy creek. The caption: "I've been looking all over the world for that creek, but darned if I can find...
From the Economist's reasoned position U.S. business can expect 1) that British Liberal opinion will plump for a world of free trade in which Britain will take her chances against all comers for her share of markets; 2) that whatever the future political status of the colonies may be, British Liberals are as little inclined as Mr. Churchill to write them off as an economic loss. As if in answer to one school of American opinion which brands all colonial development as bad, the Economist replies...
Born in Warsaw in 1907, plump, humorous, brown-eyed Feliks Topolski studied at Warsaw's Academy of Art, decorated
Last week plump, 52-year-old Franz Werfel, now living in California, did much to satisfy the curiosity of his Catholic admirers. In a letter to Archbishop Joseph Francis Rummel of New Orleans, he wrote: "I am ... a Jew by origin and have never been baptized. On the other hand, I wish to profess here before you and the world that ... I have been decisively influenced and molded by the spiritual forces of Christianity and the Catholic Church. I see 'in the holy Catholic Church the purest power and emanation sent by God to this earth to fight...
...brothers were tried and acquitted of the murder of her husband, the Rev. Edward Wheeler Hall, seven years younger than she, and his choir leader (and mistress), Mrs. Eleanor Mills, 33, wife of the sexton, who were found shot to death in a lovers' lane. Plump, dignified, pince-nezed Mrs. Hall outlived the local novelty of her notoriety, in her last years walked abroad without even drawing stares...