Word: girth
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...sewer. Expertly they flipped off the manhole lid. Ten feet below, icy black water, full of awful things, surged on to the Hudson. Once this sewer had been an open creek. When it was enclosed 35 years ago, engineers, according to the custom of the times, gave it great girth for a full current...
...Vagabond there has always been something incongruous about a general who issues his military commands in a series of tripping cadenzas. There is something a trifle inconclusive about a woman of considerable girth shaking a tambourine heavenward and launching into a Spanish dance. But this is a question of taste and must not be considered fair criticism. But there is one aspect of the Opera that rankles deep in the heart of the Vagabond. It is this...
Picture "John Bull." Now make him taller-6 ft. 6 in. tall. Swell his great girth, expand his barrel chest. Make him the biggest, handsomest, beefiest John Bull in England. Dress him in a well-cut morning coat, impeccable striped trousers and white spats. Give him a handsome cane. Crown him with a high silk hat. Make him a Knight of Justice of St. John of Jerusalem. Make him the colossal figure who merged under the British Royal Mail Steam Packet Co. the largest group of shipping companies ever created (TIME, Feb. 23). Do all this and you have Baron...
...casual knowledge about such things, to be one of the most highly developed and interesting of any nation. There were statues of Frederick the Great and the Great Elector. Before this last the Vagabond paused a moment in indecision. Did the adjective reflect on the man's girth or his mental ability...
...bald, white-mustached and be- spectacled man, whose red lips and rotund girth belied his 74 years, bent feverishly over a manuscript in Harvard's Widener Library one day last week, writing for all he was worth. Reluctantly he went home that evening, planning what he would do on the morrow. That night he suffered a cerebral hemorrhage. Next afternoon he was dead...