Word: avoirdupoised
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Miss Chatterton as the better nine-tenths of the combination is the only actress we have seen who could lead with both her chins and get away with it, and her slight attack of avoirdupois is not in the least detrimental of the effectiveness of her portrayal. It is unfortunate...
In the "golden age" which all operagoers ever 50 recall with sighs, the famous Rodolfos of Puccini's La Boheme (Bonci, Caruso, Gigli) had powerful voices and rotund figures. Today's cinema-bred audiences demand smaller bellies, and get, as a rule, weaker diaphragms. Old-time opera fans...
A woman manager from the Newtons has been the means of guaranteeing a successful season to an independent Harvard football eleven. Every night she weighed in each player, mostly Law School men, in order to check any increase in avoirdupois. Her vigilance, however, could not quite cope with the Minnetonka...
Some tome, it is. Pages, 2,956; avoirdupois, 11 lb., 9 oz.
Last week a big ship (the Berengaria) entered a big port (New York) carrying a big man (6 ft. 6 in. and 240 Ib. avoirdupois). He was a man who a year ago established probably the most comprehensive cartel ever set up to rescue a world industry from destruction by...