Word: girthed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...textiles, manufactures). A bachelor, he is tall and stout. A double chin tends to get out over his tight-fitting collar. His stomach bulges over his belt. He weighs 200 Ibs. or more. Setting-up exercises every other day at a Washington health centre have failed to reduce his girth. He is troubled about it. His dress is dandified. He wears silk shirts in bright colors and stripes and, often, stiff collars to match. His feet are small and well-shod. Beneath his habitual derby hat his hair is turning thin and grey. Society is his prime diversion. Of secondary...
...painfully on his two rubber-tipped canes, the Rt. Hon. Snowden seemed a puny match for his Latin opponents: the delegations of France, Belgium and Italy, marshaled by doughty French Prime Minister Aristide Briand. It was a queer tussle. M. Briand is at least three times as great in girth as the frail Yorkshireman, and nine years his senior in statecraft. The Latins, supported by Japan and with Germany's blocky Foreign Minister Dr. Gustav Stresemann neutral, were in solid phalanx pressing for adoption of the Young Plan unchanged. They were satisfied with the size of their pieces of sponge...
...Peter Hooper of Kelso, Wash. Clad in trunks and spiked shoes, he maintained his equipoise on a log furiously spinning in water for 14 min. 50 sec., when Sam Harris, his nearest competitor, splashed off. Champion Hooper received $150 and a belt stout enough to hold his bemuscled girth...
Akiba Rubinstein weighs something over 200 pounds and since Mrs. Rubin stein is of equal girth they together make particularly erroneous the prevailing impression of anemic chess players. Rubin stein is a super-veteran...
...Lawn-mowing in Winnetka is a regular Martinelli summer occupation. It is good for the girth. Among the regular Martinelli outpourings will be Manon Lescaut, Samsonn et Dalila, Aida. Curly-haired Tenor Martinelli returned, not long ago, from his first-in-16-years visit to Italy. Near him in Winnetka will be versatile Tenor Edward Johnson...