Word: plumpest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...garden on its April issue. Inside, the editors told readers how to grow such a garden in their backyards. Such practical "how-to-do-it" stories have made Better Homes and Gardens (circ. 3,250,000) the bestselling homemaking magazine in the U.S.* and the current issue the plumpest (322 pp.) and most profitable ($2,000,000 worth of ads) in its 27-year history...
...plumpest literary plum of World War II-the memoirs of Winston Churchill-fell this week to LIFE and the New York Times. It was prize fruit of massive size (projected as five volumes, 1,000,000 words), and many a newspaper, syndicate and magazine broker had hopefully shaken the tree. The price for the U.S. serial rights Churchill kept to himself, but gossips had been guessing for more than a year that his remembrances would sell for a record $1,000,000 or more...
Accidents Barred. It is not by accident but by W. R.'s design that George, 41, the eldest and plumpest son, is in San Francisco in a supernumerary job: in charge of illustration for the West Coast papers. George just likes photography is the way Hearstlings say it. John Randolph (Jack), 35, handles promotion projects (ranging from essay contests to Youth for Christ) in New York, as assistant to general manager Jacob Gortatowsky. Captain Randolph Apperson (Randy), 30, prewar assistant publisher of the San Francisco Call-Biilletin, will probably get a western Hearstpaper when he leaves the A.A.F...
...outfit, there is the duckling that stops to test the temperature with his toe before swimming after the gang, and the gopher who slides down the hill on his fanny while his pals scamper on ahead. Walt, old pal, this is life as l see it. The furriest, plumpest, liveliest achievement of modern impressionism. Bambi and his old lady may be a couple of drips, but the little guys aren...
...Club's canopied entrance. In the dining room a name band was playing, an elaborate floor show was just beginning. Off the lobby was a gaming room with tables for roulette, craps, black jack, high-low. Reporter Priddy recognized some of Lake County's plumpest dowagers, smartest débutantes...