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...appears for a moment in each of his films. It is his way of "signing" his pictures. But there was no room or excuse for him in the lifeboat. So in the middle of a news page-which has precious little business in Lifeboat either-Hitchcock planted himself, in bulbous profile, as the before-&-after model in a reducing...
...effort to nip this unfolding market in the bud has actually endangered the sanctified privacy of Britons. Police on the Great Western Railway have been seen to eye gentlemen with bulbous suitcases. There has been talk that officers have gone so far as to think of requesting British citizens to open their packages. Last week, when the King & Queen visited Midlands factories, the Queen was handed an orchid bouquet. The King smilingly warned the Queen: "Be careful, if you take those flowers on the train-you don't want to break...
...bulbous Beardsley Ruml, chairman of the New York Federal Reserve Bank, rolled up his sleeves last week for another heave to get his pay-as-you-go idea across for the benefit of groggy U.S. income-tax payers. Up to now practically everyone from the President down has gone on record for pay-as-you-go "in principle"-always with...
...Laval could have things his own way now in France. With dictatorial powers granted to him by old Marshal Pétain, with the Gestapo by his side in a country now fully under German occupation, he, free of the check-reins of government, felt he could thumb his bulbous nose at public opinion. These were main items on the well-filled Laval calendar...
Buddhism, which originated in India in the 5th Century B.C., had spread all over the East but practically disappeared from its homeland by the 13th Century A.D.The Buddhist ascendancy mellowed Indian sculpture into a less sensuous character. Instead of the bulbous breasts, swivel hips, wasp waists and whirling, multiple arms of Hinduism's gods, the Buddha had a repose of form and peace of countenance somewhat like that of the greatest Greek sculpture...