Word: plumpness
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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...
...Diego, Calif., plump, henna-haired Mrs- America Will Grant, widow of Ulysses Simpson Grant Jr., sat down on a settee which came from the White House when her father-in-law was the 18th U. S. President, told newshawks of a complaint she has lodged in court against the owners of San Diego's 27-year-old U. S. Grant Hotel, once owned by her husband. Having lived in the hotel rent-free for years, penurious Mrs. Grant was recently ordered to pay $350 a month rent, restrict her use of hotel service to $25 a week. Grumbled...
...Manhattan Federal agents arrested stubby, mild-mannered John Torrio, Chicago's No. i racketeer in the early 1920's and Al Capone's onetime boss, for an ordinary revenue law violation (TIME, May 4). Bail was set at a supposedly prohibitive $100,000. Last week a plump, elderly woman walked into Manhattan's U. S. District Court, dipped deep into her black purse, pulled out a fat wad of bills, carefully peeled off 97 crisp $1,000 bills, four $500 bills, ten $100 bills. A gaping clerk counted them, recounted them, made out a receipt...
...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...