Word: plumpishly
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...Uncounted multitudes of more schoolteachers as far as the eye could reach, with vistas of more schoolteachers beyond, to the very confines of Memorial Hall. There was a young, slender one, pretty, but wide-eyed and idealistic. Probably a teacher of modern languages in some high school. And a plumpish one opposite her, with sad blue eyes set in a still young face, but with a few long gray hairs. Just beginning to realize that she's never going to get married, Vag thought. Vag knew from his days in the seventh grade what she would get to be like...
This agreeable use of Studio B was the idea of a jolly scriptwriter named Frances Scully ("Scully-Wully" to her good friend, W. C. Fields), who had little to put her heart into before but a Sunday morning fashion program, Speaking of Glamor. Blonde, plumpish Miss Scully, thinking of Los Angeles' lonesome "soldier boys," decided she could do better than speak of glamor; she could hand...
...20th Century-Fox) provides a parallelogram in inter-American relations. A U. S. nightclub entertainer (Don Ameche) is romancing a Brazilian cutie (Carmen Miranda) who performs in the same show. Patrons of the nightclub are Baron Duarte (also Don Ameche) a rich Brazilian broker and his pretty, plumpish wife (Alice Faye). When their quadrangular paths intersect, the foursome gets its identities tangled, temporarily crosses its affections. The complications, jealousies and comedy which accompany this Technicolored treatise on Pan-American flirtation are highly significant diplomatically. That Night in Rio is the first rose tossed by Hollywood in its current attempt...
Owned by the Hammond-Calumet Broadcasting Corp., of which Dr. George F. Courrier, a Methodist minister, is chief stockholder, WHIP does a lot of religious broadcasting. Welcoming the estimated $1,000 a week that G. A. N. A. pays for time, WHIP's director, plumpish, blonds Doris Keane, asserts: "Our programs are 100% American." Among commercial touches on the G. A.N>A> show are occasional plugs for Dr. Silge, who is a Chicago optometrist. Says Dr. Silge: "The newspapers may call us fifth columnists, but they can't prove it because it isn't true...
...physician, kept the boss indoors, made him rest in the lounge chair by the fireplace in the pine-paneled living room. Midweek came before Dr. Mclntire permitted the President to disport his 6 ft. 2 in. in the buoyant, tepid waters of the glass-roofed pool. Canada's plumpish Prime Minister W. L. Mackenzie King lay in swimming trunks on a cot while Mr. Roosevelt splashed about...